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Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble

Born: June 5, 1939 (age 85)
Bio: Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd is an English novelist, biographer and critic.
Known for:
  1. The Millstone (1965)
  2. The Pure Gold Baby (2013)
  3. A Summer Bird-Cage (1962)
  4. The Needle's Eye (1972)
  5. The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1932)
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  • life
  • hope
  • place

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