"For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great."

-- Jose Ortega y Gasset

#Persons Quotes #Small Things Quotes

“The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.”
“It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government; the second, the period of political tutelage; and the third, the period of constitutional government.”

Source : "The Three Phases of National Reconstruction". Essay by Sun Yat-sen, 1918.
“I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter.”
“The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.”
“Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. Thatâ€™s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then itâ€™s not interesting anymore. Itâ€™s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting.”
“The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.”
“It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
“My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.”

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