"When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space."

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Elaine Scarry

#Beautiful Quotes #Space Quotes #Tears Quotes

“One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.”
“He hears the silence howling catches angels as they fall, and the all time winner has got him by the fun.”
“The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people.”
“The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.”
“In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.”
“But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a blazing afternoon sun, almost brutal in its clarity, bathing everything in pure light. Sweat trickled down his back and chest from the steamy heat, and his entire body pulsed with life. Even his fingertips throbbed. It took all of his formidable self-control to prevent himself from pushing her down on the dock and spreading her legs for his entry.”
“The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.”
“And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.”

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