"He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face."

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Source : Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton

Tracy Chevalier

#Life Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Cities Quotes

“If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.”
“The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.”
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”
“The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.”
“I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.”

Source : "Dem U.S. Senate Candidate Calls Opponent A "Whore" For Israel". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 6, 2012.
“I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.”
“What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.”
“At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.”

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