„It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.“

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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„He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.“
— Agatha Christie
„One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.“
— William Shakespeare
„they say that time heals all things,they say you can always forget;but the smiles and the tears across the yearsthey twist my heart strings yet!“
— George Orwell
„Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.“
— Joseph Campbell
„A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.“
— Ayn Rand