"But I still always felt the absence of a mother."

-- Marcel Carne

#Mother Quotes #Absence Quotes #Stills Quotes

“Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness...”
“For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.”

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“In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.”
“I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.”
“It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.”
“I am working in Paris . I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.”
“I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.”
“Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.”

Source : "Science in Russian Culture: A History to 1860". Book by Alexander Vucinich, June 1963.

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