"To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty."

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Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.8, Courier Corporation

Agnes Smedley

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“I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2005). “Dead to the World”, p.29, Penguin
“A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.”

Source : "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân". Documentary, January 10, 2011.
“Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.”
“I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
“Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.”
“We kill with antibiotics and antiseptics, and if our slaughter is ineffectual we use surgery to expel the offending organ from our presence. We destroy the body in order to save it.”
“The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.”

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