"For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?"

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Honore de Balzac

#Pain Quotes #Shadow Quotes #World Quotes

“I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.”
“With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!”
“My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?”
“Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.”

Source : Gemma Halliday (2015). “Killer in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #2”, p.20, Gemma Halliday Publishing
“It's always great to have a family member who knows exactly what you're going through in every way, shape, and form, and I'm blessed to have that in my sister.”
“Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together.”
“Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind.”

Source : "Eyes on China's direction under new leadership". Interview with Stephen McDonell, www.abc.net.au. November 15, 2012.
“What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”

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