"One must choose between loving women and knowing them."

-- Ninon de L'Enclos

#Knowing Quotes #Loving A Woman Quotes

“The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing. All the others fled from Howling Forest in time, but we didn't want to leave our home. The Nothing caught us in our sleep and this is what it did to us." "Is it very painful?" Atreyu asked. "No," said the second bark troll, the one with the hole in his chest. "You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.”
“Doubt, but still hate!”
“We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world”
“I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions ...”

Source : Elizabeth Inchbald (1808). “The British Theatre: Or, a Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theaters Royal ... : With Biographical and Critical Remarks. Such things are. Every one has his fault. Wifes as they were. Lover's vows. To marry or not to marry”
“Life is too short to be lived badly.”

Source : Marjane Satrapi (2008). “Persepolis I & II”, Random House
“I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see and understand because they keep ignoring the rights of their citizens ... and at this stage there is no other way to affect change, because the authorities have taken hostage of the media, so perhaps this boycott can be a symbol of criticism being voiced.”

Source : "Winter Olympics 2014: Pussy Riot join campaign for Sochi boycott" by Robin Scott-Elliot, www.independent.co.uk. October 17, 2013.
“In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.”
“So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.”

Source : Croshaw's website "Fully Ramblomatic", www.fullyramblomatic.com. July 3, 2003.

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