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«The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.»
«New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.»
«For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: ''I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.''»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
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«We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us, loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe, yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!»
Author: Queen Victoria
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Another World, birthday, brighter, earthly, granite, praying, robe, sarcophagus, splendid, tenderly, woe, wreath, wreaths
«No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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«The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong»
«Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past»