"The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all are gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cockcrow."

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Source : "An Autobiography and Other Essays". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, 1949.

G. M. Trevelyan

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #Passion Quotes

“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”
“Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.”
“Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.”

Source : "Thrilling Difficulty". Interview with Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, www.guernicamag.com. November 1, 2007.
“We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.”
“cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!”

Source : Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (1970). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”
“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”
“The fear of climatic catastrophes is an ancient one and not unlike our fear of strangers. In the past, people believed that the climate almost always changes for the worse, and only rarely for the better - God's punishment for sinful behavior.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Bradley Cooper was an asshole, but he was - like Sidney Lumet, like George Clooney - the nicest guy in the world. I sound like the biggest ass-kisser ever. But I'm telling the truth, I swear to God!”

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