"More than a billion women around the world want to emulate western women's lifestyles and are rapidly acquiring the material ability to do so. It is therefore vital that in our leadership we display some reserve and responsibility in our spending so that the world's finite resources will be available for our children, their children and their children's children"

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Louise Burfitt-Dons

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“when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight.”
“There is no mystery whatever â€” only inability to perceive the obvious.”
“No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.”
“Creativity is discontent translated into arts.”
“It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.”
“For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.”
“Love makes you smart and strong. Smart enough to know there is nothing else that matters. Strong enough to know that nothing else can weaken you. When you're in love, you're at peace, you're whole, and always safe. I know I made you feel at peace.”
“But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.”

Source : Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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