"What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?"

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Source : Frances Wright (1831). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.94

Frances Wright

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“Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.”

Source : "Vanessa Williams On Scandals, TV And Her Mom". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2012.
“One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Dec 18, 2011
“I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.”

Source : William Wegman, Frédéric Paul, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Limousin (1993). “William Wegman, l'oeuvre photographique”, Frac Limousin
“Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.”
“Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way you think it should be made, pure creative freedom, purity of intention, with no boundaries.”

Source : Rick Remender (2013). “Black Science #1”, p.31, Image Comics
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.”
“For me, each one of our SNSD members is like my body. If one gets hurt, it hurts me & pains me even more.”

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