"When I loose my faith in Human nature, I put my faith in Nature-"

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Source : Lucinda Riley (2012). “The Orchid House: A Novel”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

Lucinda Riley

#Human Nature Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”
“The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.”
“It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]”
“Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."”
“Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.”

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“Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.”
“I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.”
“A clere conscience is a sure carde.”

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