"I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Morning Quotes #Color Quotes #Awakening Quotes

“What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.104, Vintage
“My husband is my part of my greatest joys, so it doesn't feel like work or like I'm balancing anything. My husband and my kids absolutely come first, so work is just something where I figure out where it will fit.”
“With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.”
“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”

Source : "Legal Fiction" l. 1 (1935)
“The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.”
“But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo”
“We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.”
“Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.”

Source : Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”

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