"I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness."

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Source : Alessandro Baricco (2013). “Ocean Sea”, p.182, Canongate Books

Alessandro Baricco

#Loneliness Quotes #Love You Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.”
“You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.”
“Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.”
“Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do and how to use the camera successfully. Doing exercises for example if you try to find out things that the camera can do that the eye cannot do. So that you have a tool that will do what you need to be done. But then once you have mastered the craft the most important thing is to determine why you want to shoot pictures and what you want to shoot pictures of. That's where the thematic issue comes to life.”
“Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.”
“No goal is too high if we climb with care and confidence.”

Source : S. Truett Cathy (1989). “It's Easier to Succeed Than to Fail”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated
“When everyone else says you can't, determination says,'YES YOU CAN.'”
“His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.”

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