"And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end."

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Source : Walter De la Mare (1941). “Collected poems”

Walter de La Mare

#Death Quotes #Dark Quotes #Winning Quotes

“The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.”
“I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.”
“People who give will never be poor.”

Source : Anne Frank (2012). “Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex”, p.69, Halban Publishers
“It is kind of weird being the last gang in town.”
“I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.”

Source : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
“What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to speculate about that question. Sun Tzu's ideas, as expressed in his famous treatise, have undoubtedly influenced the nature of many revolutionary movements that are arrayed against more powerful forces, and in some cases - as in Vietnam - have played a useful role in bringing about success. But such ideas are always in conflict with other deepseated emotional factors, which propel dissident movements into the rampant use of terrorism and other forms of anarchistic struggle.”
“Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it burns not with your song.”
“the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.”

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