"The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential."

-- Zadie Smith

#Library Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.”
“I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.”
“I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.”
“A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd
“If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now.”
“You canâ€™t learn to write in college. Itâ€™s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they donâ€™t. They have prejudices.”
“It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur vÃ©ritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'Ã©lever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want (or wish) to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("supplÃ©er", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par lÃ ", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.”
“To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.”

Source : Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.70, WaterBrook

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