"Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself."

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Source : Fridtjof Nansen (2013). “Farthest North: The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer”, p.170, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Fridtjof Nansen

#Fall Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that heâ€™s worth something. And if I know for sure that Iâ€™m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?”
“But when Iâ€™m jumping, itâ€™s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky. Really, my urge to be swallowed up by the sky is enough to make my heart quiver. When Iâ€™m jumping, I can feel my body parts really well, tooâ€”my bounding legs and my clapping handsâ€”and that makes me feel so, so good.”
“The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.”
“I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.”
“Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation”

Source : Thomas Gainsborough (1963). “Letters”
“There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.”
“They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.”
“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.”

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