"The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders."

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Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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“It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Littlefoot: A Poem”, p.9, Macmillan
“Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.”
“Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.”
“My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.”
“You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.”
“If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?”
“We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.”
“Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.”

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