"All has gone to rest, and I don't know whether I'm alive or will live or whether I'm rushing like this through the world for I'm not longer weeping or laughing"

-- Taras Shevchenko

#Rushing Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Alive Quotes

“You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty." "If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?" "Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.”
“If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them.”
“Believe it or not, goals can change a game.”
“It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.”
“Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.”
“I hate how people say I'm growing up fast.”
“The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.”
“Iâ€™m not very creativeâ€ doesnâ€™t work. Thereâ€™s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who donâ€™t. Unused creativity doesnâ€™t just disappear. It lives within us until itâ€™s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.”

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