"Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective."

-- Gustave Flaubert

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“By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.”
“We`re not here for a long time, we`re here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.”
“I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.”

Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”
“Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.”
“He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.”
“In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them.”

Source : The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid,
“In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.”
“Catch a throatful from the fire vocal Ashing and molten glass like EyjafjallajÃ¶kull.”

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