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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."

"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."

"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."

"A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind."

"Living simply makes loving simple."

"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."

"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."

"Live with style and passion, don't seek the permission of others."
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."

"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."
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