"When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy."

-- Albert Camus

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“The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.”

Source : Quoted in Samuel G. Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North America, 11th ed. (1841)
“In China, people are selling their kidney to buy an iPhone 6. What's going to happen when the iPhone 7 comes out?”
“I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.”
“I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.”
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”
“The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.164
“Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?”
“That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work.”

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