"Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward."

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Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

Colum McCann

#Heart Quotes #Simple Quotes #Long Quotes

“Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area”
“We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.”
“I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.”
“The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.”
“Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.”

Source : Thomas Couture (1879). “Conversations on Art Methods”
“I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.”
“Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press
“Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”

Source : Starhawk, M. Macha NightMare (2013). “The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: T/K”, p.8, Harper Collins

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