"Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus."

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Source : Edward Eggleston (1872). “The End of the World: A Love Story”, p.59

Edward Eggleston

#Class Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Funeral Quotes

“But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.”
“Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.”
“The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.”
“Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.”
“I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.”

Source : Song: I Am Not A Robot, Album: The Family Jewels, 2010
“Restaurants, shows, night life, art exhibits, readings - New York is such a cultural epicenter, and while Jersey makes so much sense right now, I really am hoping to have my own future New York City some day.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.”
“In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.”

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