"No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today."

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Source : "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

Fernando de Rojas

#Years Quotes #Another Year Quotes #Today Quotes

“Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.”
“Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary,dragging home food, arms cut and scarred,that you saw yellow flowers, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you? In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love.You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts.”
“The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.”
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.”

Source : Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin
“'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.”
“I'm spoiled - in all ways. I've been in a rock 'n' roll band since I was 13, and we had incredible success. When it ended, it had been so good that I just looked at it as time to try something different.”
“And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.”
“We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.”

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