"O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance."

-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Death Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Light Quotes

“Rugby players are either piano shifters or piano movers. Fortunately, I am one of those who can play a tune.”
“I am a book I neither wrote nor read.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1967). “Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge”, p.200, New Directions Publishing
“The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.”
“Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.”

Source : James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.186, Ballantine Books
“Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.”
“Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.”
“When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.”

Source : Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.
“we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is.”

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