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Love never dies a natural death. . . It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. — Anais Nin (courtesy of Abraham Verghese’s Facebook page)

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“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet,” he says. via Stephen Hawking: Broadcasting to aliens may be ‘too risky’ – USATODAY.com.

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… He had also wandered in the woods where one finds happiness, or at least peace, and he knew the words that fit the locked compartments of the soul, like keys, and open them. — Halldor Laxness