"Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax."

-- Claude Monet

#Relaxation Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Now let us regard the idea of God from the magic standpoint, according to the four elements, the so-called tetragrammaton, the unspeakable, the supreme: the fiery principle involves the almightiness and the omnipotence, the airy principle owns the wisdom, purity and clarity, from which aspect proceeds the universal lawfulness. Love and eternal life are attributed to the watery principle, and omnipresence, immortality and consequently eternity belong to the earth principle. These four aspects together represent the supreme Godhead.”
“People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko 's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.”

Source : "Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich". Book by Solomon Volkov, New York: Limelight, pp. 158-9, 2006.
“How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.”
“When you have confidence, you can do anything.”
“I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.”
“Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.”
“Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.”
“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.”

Source : Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.107, Penguin

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