"Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two."

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Source : Miles Franklin (2007). “My Brilliant Career”, p.297, Broadview Press

Miles Franklin

#Heart Quotes #Two Quotes #Treasure Quotes

“The job of art is to turn time into things.”
“You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.”
“Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.”
“There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.”
“I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.”
“In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's always been the staple grain. But the predicament is that the Fertile Crescent, where wheat cultivation began, has now become the part of the world most dependent on imported wheat.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I'm-going-to-tilt-my-head-at-a-perpendicular-angle-and-then-attempt-to-extract-your-soul-through-your-mouth-like-some-giant-alien-sucker-fish”
“We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.”

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