"The forests have taught man liberty."

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Source : "Cosmopolis". Ch. 2 "The Beginning of a Drama". Book by Paul Bourget, 1892.

Paul Bourget

#Men Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Forests Quotes

“Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?”
“Pepperidge Farm bread. That's fancy bread. You can tell it's fancy because it's wrapped twice. You open it, and it still isn't open. That's why I don't buy it. I don't need another step between me and toast.”
“Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.”
“Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.”
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
“Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of a geometric order, and the transitory, changing forms of our actual world. The content of our experience results from an immaterial, abstract, geometric architecture which is composed of harmonic waves of energy, nodes of relationality, melodic forms springing forth from the eternal realm of geometric proportion.”
“Conquering evil, not the opponent is the essence of swordsmanship.”

Source : "Behold the Second Horseman" by Joseph Lumpkin, (p. 44), 2005.

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