"In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and winding, ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac."

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Victor Hugo

#Stars Quotes #Zodiac Quotes #Gnats Quotes

“I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.”
“Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.”
“What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.”
“With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.”
“If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.”
“And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.”
“Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.”
“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.”

Source : Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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