To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.
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On the Aegean Sea, in Ch. 2Nikos Kazantzakis
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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.
Willy Russell
I prize thy gentle heart,
Free from ambition, falsehood, or art,
And thy good mind,
Daily refined,
By pure desire
To fan the heaven-seeking fire.Margaret Fuller
The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep
The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!Antony and Cleopatra
Wherever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure: a larger heart, and a greater self-restraint, would put a calm autumnal sadness in the place of the instinctive outcry of pain.
Bertrand Russell
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