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It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.


Sverker Sörlin

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I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
مليكة مستظرف Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who...
CRISTIANE SERRUYA She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. I...
ULRICH BECK The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
SARA ZARR You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA As a movement (rather than a preference), the goal of antinatalism is that no humans should have chi...
QUENTIN S. CRISP you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can...
NED VIZZINI I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
PRATEEKSHA MALIK People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ...
FREDRIK BACKMAN When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No...
MILAN KUNDERA Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY If freedom once required a secular critique of religion, it can also require a religious critique of...
HARVEY COX The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth...
RENE DENFELD Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Înţelege tot. Eu îl insult şi el mă urăşte. Sau invers" rîdea el.
GIOVANNI ARPINO Mai tii minte cat visai? Mai visezi?
GIOVANNI ARPINO I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name...
STUART NADLER The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on th...
J.K. ROWLING Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces betw...
KRISTIN O'DONNELL TUBB He Is Not Dead

I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY From the day after we lose someone, how we lost them doesn't matter. All that matters now is that th...
CHAD PELLEY When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
MADELINE MILLER I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who thi...
ADAM SILVERA It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou...
WALTER MOSLEY But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible �...
M.M. KAYE The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Royce understood then why she had come: she had come to finish the task her relatives had begun; to ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, ...
ALAN DUNDES I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.
RAINER MARIA RILKE I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS Abortion is the new holocaust, it is a real life horror story that involves millions of unwanted bab...
NORM TOMLINSON It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.

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