"I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict."

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Source : 1824 The Journal of Euge'ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948), entry for 4 Jun.

Eugene Delacroix

#Race Quotes #Wings Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.”
“Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.”

Source : Interview with Maya Singer, www.ign.com. March 9, 2001.
“My mother raised me and there was some painful and difficult times, because she was pursuing a career and also very actively involved in expressing her political views. But, looking back, I wouldnt switch her for a normal mom, even though there were moments when Id come back from school and wish shed just be there in a gingham dress putting dinner on the table. I never had that. But now Im really glad I have her.”
“Gratitude is thankfulness expressed in action.”

Source : William George Jordan (1903). “Great truths”
“True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.”
“I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.”
“A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.”
“I'm proud of myself. I'm a relieved, happy girl.”

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