"Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment."

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Dogen

#Morning Quotes #Lightning Quotes #Dew Quotes

“One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.”
“There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is PoincarÃ©.”

Source : "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World". Book by Margaret MacMillan, p. 33, 2003.
“I come out of real life.”
“This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2010). “A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series”, p.170, Hachette UK
“You've all heard some rumors about me over the years. I guess this is the moment to do it. My name is Richard Gere and I am a l*sbian.”
“You always think in terms of customer benefit. You always think, "How could I really benefit people at such a high level that they would love to buy my product or service and recommend it to others?"”
“All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don't need our ***** coming over there trying to do British accents.”
“Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well - that the individual condition of each is tragic. Each of us is alone: sometimes we escape from solitariness, through love or affection or perhaps creative moments, but those triumphs of life are pools of light we make for ourselves while the edge of the road is black: each of us dies alone.”

Source : "The Two Cultures".

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