"The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy."

-- Khalil Gibran

#Giving Quotes #Receiving Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.”

Source : Yangming Wang (1916). “The Philosophy of Wang Yang-ming”
“Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.”
“What goes for sex goes double for politics.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Feb 15, 2014
“The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective.”
“I do think it's interesting when people are born into families that at one point had huge amounts of money and that money has kind of vanished over the generations and they're sort of the last vestiges. You see that these people live really quite modestly and yet, somehow the way the clothes fit them, they still have some kind of strange genetic advantage over the rest of us. There's always these weird things in which you detect the legacy. There's a pair of cufflinks that you look at and go, "Oh, my God! These had to come from the Romanovs."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.”
“My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.”

Source : Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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