"my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out"

-- Mikhail Lermontov

“No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
“I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.”
“I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.”
“All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”
“She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.”
“You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.”
“If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.”
“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”

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