"It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream - the life that now lay open before him."

-- Robert Musil

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“All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.”
“Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.”
“An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.”
“The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.”

Source : Quoted in David Pickering Brewer'sTwentieth-Century Music (1994).
“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.”

Source : Julian of Norwich (1985). “Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich”, Templegate Pub
“I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.”
“Everything is generated through your own will power.”

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