"[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation..."

-- Nikolai Gogol

#Light Quotes #Soul Quotes #Doe Quotes

“There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.”
“All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.”

Source : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.127, Courier Corporation
“I don't feel like I have anything to prove, I'm not trying to be like 'this is me'. It's not anything like that, it's just fun songs, throwing my hair around.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“It's impossible to consider myself a producer. I can barely produce an English muffin, in the morning.”
“My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...”

Source : FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Feb 26, 2016
“I had been reading a lot of J.G. Ballard in the 90's and was fascinated by the idea of the vapid consumer society, the erotic charge of modern life, where the consumerist things we are coveting are just another form of destroying oneself - a modern world of uncertainty, where lost souls are trying to grab onto something for sense of contentment.”
“Alice: I miss myself. John: I miss you too, Ali, so much.”
“The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.”

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