"Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease."

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Source : "Poésies completes de Sainte-Beuve" by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Paris: Charpentier, p. 16 ("Vie de Joseph Delorme"), 1840.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Long Quotes #Despair Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.”
“Life bites like a dog.”
“I like to talk about very different topics. I like to jump around a lot because I don't want people to come see me and then for an hour I tell jokes about being a little person. I just don't want that to happen. I understand that it's part of me, that's the first thing that you notice and it's something that people are curious about.”
“I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.”
“Anything simple always interests me.”
“You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.”

Source : Song: Red Rag Top
“I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.”
“His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.”

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