"I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feelâ€”everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire."

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Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.116, Petrarca Press

Mary MacLane

#Fire Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Genius Quotes

“At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm.”
“A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking!”
“I've always been very tied to language.”
“The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.”
“When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.”

Source : Giorgio De Chirico, José María Faerna (1995). “De Chirico”, Harry N. Abrams
“To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.”
“If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.”
“Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.”

Source : Nathaniel Morton, William Bradford, Thomas Prince, Edward Winslow (1669). “New-England's Memorial”, p.23

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