"Chess is not for timid souls."

-- Wilhelm Steinitz

#Soul Quotes #Chess Quotes

“Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.”
“Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!”
“Unless this [Barack Obama] American administration is willing to diverge from the conventional American policy in the Middle East by changing its basic attitudes on crucial questions, foremost of them Palestine, and support genuinely the rights of people for independence, sovereignty and identity across the board, the only "resolve" one would hope from the USA is to stay out of the Middle East for a while.”

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“For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.”
“But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language will keep us safe from human onslaught, will express for us our regret at being unable to supply groceries or love or peace.”
“An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.”
“You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.”
“I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games.”

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