"What is stronger in us â€” passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?"

-- Nikolai Gogol

#Passion Quotes #Age Quotes #Desire Quotes

“You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.”

Source : Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.45, Penguin
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”

Source : Espana, 20 Nov. 1920
“Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.”
“Well o' course she's feelin' dandy! She's the mother o' God for the love o' Pete!”
“[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.”
“Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.”
“It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness...”

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