"The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come."

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Walter Savage Landor

#Past Quotes #Notes Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.”
“Aggression, it's the next thing to war, except you don't get killed. Aggression is what you have every day with your wife. Aggression is what you have every day at the office. Box is a legalized form of aggression, where the ending is well-defined, the combat is well-delivered, and you got 10 rounds of two equally-sized fighters fighting aggressively to hurt each other.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.”

Source : "Addresses to the Graduating Classes of St. Agnes School".
“A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.”
“I just create, that's what I do.”
“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.”
“The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends....”

Source : "Lytton Strachey". Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
“You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!”

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