"I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged."

-- Cesare Pavese

#Morning Quotes #Night Quotes #Flames Quotes

“The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.”
“I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme â€” if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one.”
“I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care”
“When good Americans die they go to Paris.”
“Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.”
“Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround.”
“Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.”
“What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.”

Source : Catherine Crowe (1854). “The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers”, p.498

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