"He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies."

--

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 841-60, 1922.

Paul Scarron

“As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.”
“Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (1911). “The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid”
“Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.”

Source : "Rubinstein Was His Music" by John Guinn, Detroit Free Press, p. 8D, December 22, 1982.
“For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]”
“You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.”
“When God made the planet, he made the plants, he made the animals, he made the Sun and the Moon, and he made us, and we're all interconnected, and when we disregard, disrespect, or damage any part of it, we do violence against creation.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...”

Source : Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.397, Vintage
“Life begins when you do.”

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