"All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer."

-- Ellen Key

#Burning Quotes #Charity Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.27, Penguin
“One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.”
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”

Source : "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 2003.
“He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.”
“Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.”
“I killed one man to save 100,000,”
“I will defend the peso like a dog!”
“When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies. When music sounds, out of the water rise Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes, Rapt in strange dream burns each enchanted face, With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place. When music sounds, all that I was I am Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came; And from Time's woods break into distant song The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.”

Source : Walter De la Mare (1902). “Down-adown-derry: A Book of Fairy Poems”, p.54, Library of Alexandria

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