"I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you."

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Giannis Ritsos

#People Quotes #Greek Quotes #Helping Quotes

“perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”
“Well, I'm really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before.”
“Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.”
“I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.”
“The idea of a rock band to me is the ultimate in subversion, in leading the charge to revolution. My fave part of music is that it cuts to the chase and goes right to the id.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I think people want to put you in a box and close it away so that it makes them feel better. A lot of musicians get that.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“Toast is bread made delicious and useful. Un-toasted bread is okay for children's sandwiches and sopping up barbecue sauce, but for pretty much all other uses, toast is better than bread. An exception is when the bread is fresh from the oven, piping hot, with butter melting all over it. Then it's fantastic, but I would argue that bread fresh out of the oven is a kind of toast. Because I'm an ***** and I refuse to be wrong about something.”
“A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.”

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