"After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome!"

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Source : Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.267

Caroline Anne Southey

#Lying Quotes #Flower Quotes #Book Quotes

“No one gets to tell you what your life means!”
“I often love to hate Aishwarya”
“Gabriel is a unique archangel in the sense that it is almost certain that she is the only female in the higher echelons.”

Source : James R. Lewis, Evelyn Dorothy Oliver (2008). “Angels A to Z”, p.153, Visible Ink Press
“Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.”
“Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?”

Source : John Fante (2010). “Ask the Dust”, p.22, Harper Collins
“I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.”
“I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.”
“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”

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