"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."

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Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan

Derek Walcott

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“Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.”
“Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.”

Source : Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.65, New World Library
“When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"”
“Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.”
“I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.”
“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”

Source : Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1830). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary by Tho. Tyrwhitt”, p.94
“Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.”
“Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.”

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