"Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words."

-- Kate Grenville

#Grief Quotes #Joy Quotes #Skins Quotes

“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.”

Source : Minot Judson Savage (1884). “Poems of modern thought”
“When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.”
“Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.”
“When it comes down to it, itâ€™s pretty simple. Adventure is what you make it. And whether itâ€™s the travel, the discovery or just the feeling of letting go, the only way weâ€™ll ever find out is to get out there and do it. Enjoy the ride.”
“Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.”
“One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.177, Univ of California Press
“Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be â€œjust humansâ€ within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism.”
“I think I've had my fill of electoral law.”

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