"We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."

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Source : 'Litany for Dictatorships' (1935)

Stephen Vincent Benet

#Wisdom Quotes #Done Quotes

“Live in the Acts of the Apostles, and every day you will see some miracle worked by the power of the living God.”
“Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.”
“Without a battle there is no victory.”
“I don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun.”
“it's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE......”
“It must be sad to outlive aught we love.”
“The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2000). “The Language of Inquiry”, p.207, Univ of California Press
“When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy”

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