"And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomorrow is also a day - and Titus has entered his stronghold."

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Mervyn Peake

#Flames Quotes #Green Quotes #And Love Quotes

“I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hang in, keep cool, and stay who you are. Things will improve.”
“...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldnâ€™t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.”

Source : Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (1988). “The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 19541955”, p.223, CUP Archive
“I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.”

Source : L. A. Meyer (2005). “Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get.”
“I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.”
“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.”

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