"Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything."

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Source : "Pharaoh". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1897.

BolesÅ‚aw Prus

#Sea Quotes #Compass Quotes #Folly Quotes

“The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.”
“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”
“Of course, an English aristocrat might have some contact with the staff downstairs and could adequately say a thing or two about inter-class dramas unfolding in the household. But something less parochial might be harder to come by. This is relevant because stories about the divisiveness of class are by definition stories that straddle class boundaries. A story about a miner in a mining town is not obviously one that speaks to the divisiveness of class. In other words, class doesn't just divide us in the world but it also divides us in the stories we're presented.”
“To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.”
“We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, listening to their stories, enriches what womanhood is. It expands it and makes it even better.”
“I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.”
“I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.”
“We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world.”

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