"I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death"

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Source : Guillaume Apollinaire, Anne Hyde Greet (1980). “Calligrammes”, p.71, Univ of California Press

Guillaume Apollinaire

#Joy Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Wander Quotes

“Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.”

Source : Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.64, Seal Press
“It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.”
“At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.46, Penguin
“Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times.”
“The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.”
“I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.”
“I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.”
“I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.”

Source : Edna Ferber (1941). “Saratoga Crunk”

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