"This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see."

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Our World Quotes #Land Quotes #People Quotes

“Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in what love might bring, Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.”
“Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”

Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.30, New Directions Publishing
“I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.”
“What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?”
“My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.”
“God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.”
“Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.”
“Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.”

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