"The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night."

-- Loren Eiseley

#Lying Quotes #Night Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes

“I've lived nine lives . . . And this is the worst.”
“The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.”

Source : W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”
“No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.”
“When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant â€œGoliath!â€ and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.”
“I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?”
“We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.”
“Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest.”

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