"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

-- Jose Ortega y Gasset

#Men Quotes #Poet Quotes #Ends Quotes

“All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.”
“I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.”
“Woman is also the element of conflict.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!”
“I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.”

Source : "'This American Life,' en Español". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.
“I had always dared to dream large, but even this black kid~ez_rsquo~s imagination could not have come close to inventing the storybook success that I have enjoyed in the nearly thirty years I`ve worked in this medium I adore.”
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisionsâ€”we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.323, Penguin
“If Putin and those around him had been smart enough to go in a different direction... The country was ready. The conditions were extremely favorable - with oil prices as high as they were, it was possible to do anything. It was possible to solidify democracy. After the Yeltsin years people began to think that democracy is a disaster, that democracy equals misery. Putin got a lucky break - and he used it the KGB way. He turned out to be a wily KGB man, not a wise statesman.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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