"All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things."

-- Erin Morgenstern

#Fall Quotes #Empires Quotes #Way Quotes

“Dancing is like walking.People always walk,right? For me,I always have to dance”
“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.”
“As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind of soul and is the Buddha in some sense. This is why we can pray to it. Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material - it's earth, it's water and - with fire - it takes on form and life. In fact, what is art? Art is giving to what you create a soul. That's why it is said God is like an artist.”
“There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.”
“I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.”
“The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.”
“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape
“I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.”

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