"Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace."

-- Baldassare Castiglione

#Effort Quotes #Grace Quotes #Obvious Quotes

“When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about.”
“The time I kill is killing me.”
“The best accessories a girl can have are her closest friends.”
“My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.”
“Home is where my horse is.”

Source : Song: Natural Forces, Album: Natural Forces, 2009
“The dead have need of fairy tales too.”

Source : Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.”
“If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you.”

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