"Still and pale Thou movest in thy silver veil, Queen of the night! the filmy shroud Of many a mild, transparent cloud Hides, yet adorns thee."

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Source : Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1859). “The poetical works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.10

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

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“I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.”
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”
“I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.”

Source : "The Films Of Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Retrospective", www.indiewire.com. July 29, 2011.
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“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.”
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
“No ends, simply means.”
“When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared.”

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