"The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die."

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Source : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

Maaza Mengiste

#Love Is Quotes

“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
“You were right,â€ she said. â€œYou were always right, about everything. And I will always love you, Sam. Forever.”
“During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.”
“If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful”
“I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together.”
“Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while has broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.”
“You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.”
“Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.”

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