"The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout."

-- Johan Huizinga

#Lonely Quotes #Light Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.”
“Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.”

Source : Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.195, Macmillan
“I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. Im thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.”
“...I said I was sorry.â€ â€œBe sorry, then. Just be sorry somewhere else.”
“Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.”
“The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.”
“Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.”
“Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.”

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