"What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love."

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Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

John Knowles

#Love You Quotes #Mean Quotes #Winter Quotes

“Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!”
“So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: "Civil War." Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? "Say, pardon me?" (shoots gun) "I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry."”
“What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.”
“Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.”
“The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.”
“A woman's greatest and most perduring failure will be her failure to love. It is certainly not without significance that so many women presently pressing for power on the political, sociological or ecclesial scene are unbeautiful in their unsmilling press for dominance. Contorted faces and clenched fists are particularly repellant in woman, who is gifted with unique powers to radiate love and extend healing hands.”
“I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.”
“I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.”

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