"Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself."

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

#Laughter Quotes #Eye Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.”
“"Balance" as a verb doesn't mean "stillness," but the constant act of making minor corrections from one side to another to bring one towards a center of stability.”
“Laugh at love and love will make you cry.”
“I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.”

Source : "Unspoken worlds" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.
“Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.”
“There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.”

Source : Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.242, Lulu.com
“I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle.”
“Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.”

Source : William Burkitt (1840). “The poor man's help, and young man's guide”, p.13

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