"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."

-- Abraham Cowley

#Vanity Quotes #People Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.”

Source : Michael Chabon (2012). “Telegraph Avenue”, p.13, HarperCollins UK
“There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.”

Source : Novalis (1995). “Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson ("B.V.") of Hymns to night”
“[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it should be about life.”
“Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.”
“I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'.”
“The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.”

Source : Henry Handel Richardson (2008). “Maurice Guest”, p.18, Sydney University Press
“I love Polo. I have a lot of Ralph Lauren suits. I got Dolce, I got a little bit of everything. And my favorite thing about Ralph Lauren is that he puts the number three on a lot of his clothes, so I feel like it's meant for me.”

Source : "Chris Paul Looks Good in a Suit (and Not Just for an NBA All-Star)". Interview with Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2009.
“Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.”

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