"You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood."

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Georges Danton

#House Quotes #Down And Quotes #Salt Quotes

“If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.”
“Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books
“According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.”
“I'd always meant to become a musician. I'd just never gotten around to it. And my daughter being born, I was like, Okay, this is seriously the last chance. And also: Do you really want to be a dad who never did what he wanted to do? You've got to set an example now. You've got to do this.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.”
“Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum”
“Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 05, 2014
“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.”

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