"It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human being in whose breast a human heart is beating, to know that one single creature is in that dreadful place would make a hell of heaven itself. And they have hearts in heaven, for they love there."

-- James Anthony Froude

#Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it's set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!”
“Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past”
“Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now.”
“Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.”

Source : Helene Deutsch (1958). “The Psychology of Women”
“The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.”
“I didn't even know how to shave at 15.”
“We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.”
“The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.”

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