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  1. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.
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  2. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    She felt simultaneously relieved and burdened: relieved of all her old questions; burdened by the answers.
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  3. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening,
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  4. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    She thought she knew much, but she knew nothing.
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  5. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow-for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up.
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  6. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again.
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  7. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well. -LORD PERCEVAL
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  8. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    One thing was certain: Human Time was the saddest, maddest, most devastating variety of time that had ever existed. She tried her best to ignore it.
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  9. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her, he had married her, he had broken her heart, he had looked upon her with those sad and hopeless eyes, he had accepted his banishment, and now he was gone. What a stark and stunning thing was life- that such a cataclysm can enter and depart so quickly, and leave such wreckage behind!
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  10. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions - electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us… When we cease all argument and debate - both internal and external - our true questions can be heard and answered…That is the gathering of magic.
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  11. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?
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  12. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Signature of All Things

    The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.
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