“A more effective way to spot a liar is to notice if he puts the palm of his hand on his chest — preferably his right hand over his heart — and sighs indignantly when he’s been accused of lying.” Surrounded by Idiots
„How mysterious this life was, how deep and muddy its waters ran, yet how clear and noble what emerged from them.“ Narcissus and Goldmund
It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. Master Humphrey's Clock
There are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. The Waves
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