"People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world."

-- Tzvetan Todorov

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“Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.”

Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”
“I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.”
“They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.”
“In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.”
“I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.”
“I think the only word I can use to describe what I'm doing today is feeling free. Of course, it's a business - it's about money at the end of the day, but it's about ideas as well. When you treat fashion only like a business, you're not going to go anywhere; when you push on that, we have the chance to express ourselves.”
“One always imagines that the days that change oneâ€™s life must be marked with something extraordinary in natureâ€”storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.”

Source : Margaret George (2011). “Elizabeth I: The Novel”, p.452, Penguin
“I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.”

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