Adam Mickiewicz famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.
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Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am FREEDOM.
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I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!
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Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.
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You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.
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Now my soul is incarnate in my country, My body has swallowed her soul, And I and my country are one. My name is million, for I love and suffer for millions.
-- Adam Mickiewicz
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I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?
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Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.
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Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.
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Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.
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We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.
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Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.
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In everything, there is a share of everything
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Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.
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