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Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.


Orhan Pamuk

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CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
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ORHAN PAMUK May you one day find the place where your dreams and reality collide.
R.S. NOVELLE Your dreams keep you alive
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MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps ou...
THOMAS HARRIS Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.
JULIAN BARNES I wanna be inside your heaven
Take me to the place you cry from
Where the storm blows your...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally...
E. F. BENSON Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.
OLIVER GASPIRTZ Dreams are memories.
Memories are dreams.
But my time with you hasn’t become a dream j...
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You know where God is. You know where the Devil is. And you know where your going, hell or heaven.
SUSIE L HILL All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven...
BARBARA WALTERS My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
MARK KNOPFLER My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues
MARK KNOPFLER The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations...
C.S. LEWIS It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.
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LUKE BRYAN ...and you will hold me with your wondering eyes in the serenity of purest mind at the dreams edge o...
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MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread sof...
W.B. YEATS All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.
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O.R. MELLING To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefe...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Help the needy and secure your place in Heaven.
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NEIL GAIMAN To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is...
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LORD WEINSTOCK Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
LORD WEINSTOCK The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
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لإن الإنسان وهو ميّت يش...
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ORHAN PAMUK الشعرُ شقيق الرسم ، و اللون شقيق الكلمة .
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Music to the deaf,
A word out of darkness.
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So
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Where I ...
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