"Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud."

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Maurice Blanchot

#People Quotes #Proud Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.”
“Freedom is not given - it is taken.”
“If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.”
“At any given time, there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights there are a lot of girls in the audience, some nights not. It's so unpredictable, but I like that.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The whole system of society tells you what to do.”
“Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.”
“A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.”

Source : Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My Life in Baseball: The True Record”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press
“The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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