"Communists are the last optimists."

-- Nadine Gordimer

#Lasts Quotes #Communist Quotes #Optimist Quotes

“You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face.”
“True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person....”
“The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.”
“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.”
“You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.”
“It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.”
“I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.”
“The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.”

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