"Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?"

-- Sergio Chejfec

#Stars Quotes #Mean Quotes #Self Quotes

“There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.”
“There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.”

Source : Barbara Pym (2011). “No Fond Return Of Love”, p.13, Hachette UK
“I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!”
“It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could get my hands on, and developing a profound respect for designers, fashion and how to wear it.”
“Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.”

Source : "The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2008.
“Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.”
“You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.”
“From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.”

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