"Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth."

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Source : Paul Eluard (1988). “Selected Poems”, London : Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press

Paul Eluard

#Eye Quotes #Earth Quotes #Aliens Quotes

“And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.”

Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.17, Random House
“Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create excitement, rather than make them upset.”
“Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.”

Source : "Q&A: Stacy London tells 'The Truth About Style'". Interview with Jillian Singh, blog.sfgate.com. October 9, 2012.
“We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people.”
“Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others' principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal systems. While it isn't necessarily a bad thing to use others' principles - it's difficult to come up with your own, and often much wisdom has gone into those already created - adopting pre-packaged principles without much thought exposes you to the risk of inconsistency with your true values.”
“The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.”
“In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that youâ€™d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only way to get rid of her is to send her into a parallel world from which she can never return; otherwise she would stay with the doctor forever.”
“Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice.”

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