"No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth."

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Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

Ellen Terry

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“Don't doubt your faith; doubt your doubts for they are unreliable.”
“If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.”

Source : Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.81, Oxford University Press
“The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.”
“May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith...”
“If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the most brazen leaders, because everything is done with their cooperation.”
“Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!”
“Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.”

Source : Marie (de France) (1978). “The lais of Marie de France”, Dutton Adult
“In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.”

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