"The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness."

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Robert Bly

#Love Is Quotes #Emptiness Quotes #Horror Quotes

“I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.”
“That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now...”
“What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.”
“Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.”

Source : Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.12, Basic Books
“Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.”
“If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.”
“I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me.”
“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.”

Source : Simon Bolivar's letter from Jamaica, Summer 1815.

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