"Beauty is the door to another world..."

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Wojciech Kurtyka

#Doors Quotes #Climbing Quotes #World Quotes

“Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.”
“For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.47
“I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue...”
“Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.”
“My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.”
“All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.”

Source : "WHO increases swine flu alert". www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2009.
“But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.”

Source : Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh (1815). “Poems”, p.75

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