"The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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“If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.”
“Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.”
“Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.”
“I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.”

Source : Glen Cook (2010). “The Many Deaths of the Black Company”, p.747, Macmillan
“Some leaders want to jump right to planning and fixing their issues, without understanding exactly what the problems are. Others want to skip the training phase since it means pulling people out of their jobs. The point is, each phase is important to enhancing culture and driving real change.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.”
“My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.”
“Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.”

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