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“When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.”
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“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.”
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“When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.”
Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”
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“Have confidence in who you are and don’t be afraid to go for what you really want in life.”
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“All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.”
Source : 1979 In the NewYork Times,13 May.
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“And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.”
Source : Simon Armitage (2011). “Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde”, p.22, Guanda
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“The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.”
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“I think every culture is passionate about food; some are just passionate about food and the food is shitty.”
Source : Source: www.believermag.com
