"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."

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Clarice Lispector

#Breathing Quotes #Silence Quotes #World Quotes

“Persistence is self-discipline in action.”
“There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity - realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.”
“And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.”
“About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on. Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?”
“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
“Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.”
“More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is blue to give us an idea of the infinite. And that blood is red so that murder will be more easily detected and criminals will be brought to justice. Yes, and I believe that I shall live forever, but I shall live without reason.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.”

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