"Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate."

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Virgil

#Fate Quotes #Mind Quotes #Causes Quotes

“The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong”
“The only journeys worth taking in life are those that test us to the very core”

Source : Justin Somper (2010). “Vampirates: Black Heart”, p.65, Simon and Schuster
“I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.”
“Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.”
“[Some] times I'd have sound but no image. When Patti [Smith] was singing with her guitar, or doing something amazing with her clarinet, I'd just mess around and record the sound. So we'd use those sounds as another layer in the film [Dream of Life].”
“[Writing songs] is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen" . . . That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.”
“People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.”
“The four eaglets are my four sons who cease not to persecute me even unto death. The youngest of them, whom I now embrace with so much affection, will sometime in the end insult me more grievously and more dangerously than any of the others.”

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