Aleksis Kivi famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.
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A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.
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The love goes where it wants; you hear it rustling but you do not know where it's going and where it goes.
-- Aleksis Kivi -
To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all!
-- Aleksis Kivi
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
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For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish.
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I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?†“Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.†Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.
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We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.
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From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read — I like to buy.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.
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You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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