"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."

-- Victor Hugo

#Animal Quotes #Wings Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for the rest of the day, checking on me every hour. This time when he comes in, I am sitting on the bed, glaring at the wall. â€œThank God,â€ he says, pressing his forehead to the door. â€œI was beginning to think it would never wear off and I would have to leave you here to â€¦ smell flowers, or whatever you wanted to do while you were on that stuff.”
“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
“We simply canâ€™t feel fulfilled by love we pay for.”
“When Iâ€™m working with materials itâ€™s not just the leaf or the stone, itâ€™s the processes that are behind them that are important. Thatâ€™s what Iâ€™m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.”
“Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say.”
“A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.”
“In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.”
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”

Source : Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.3, Basic Books

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