"Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught."

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Source : Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.1097, e-artnow sro

Wilkie Collins

#Summer Quotes #Book Quotes #Pride Quotes

“I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.”
“We see what we believe, not the other way around.”
“With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.”
“In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.”
“I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.”

Source : Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
“Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.”
“Nearer, my God, to Thee.”
“Life calls the tune, we dance.”

Source : John Galsworthy “Five Tales”, Lulu.com

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