"I know simply that the sky will last longer than I."

-- Albert Camus

#Sky Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“We live for games like these.”
“We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.”
“Belief made no difference to the truth.”
“As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well.”

Source : Learned Hand, Elizabethan Club (Yale University) (1941). “Liberty”
“Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.”
“The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: and other poems”, p.25
“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”

Source : Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
“You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.”

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