“Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.”
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
“Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.”
— Edmund Cooper, book Five to Twelve
Five to Twelve (1968)
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if at all — not as lost
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