"All beauty contains darkness."

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Source : Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

Daniel Odier

#Beauty Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.”

Source : Guy Davenport (2013). “The Guy Davenport Reader”, p.61, Counterpoint
“I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.”
“I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it's a mosaic. There's all these pieces, they're next to each other, they're not necessarily mixing. And I'm looking for those spaces where people actually do mix.”

Source : "'Orange' Creator Jenji Kohan: 'Piper Was My Trojan Horse'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 13, 2013.
“I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.”

Source : "Improbable Heroes". Book by Carl L. Steinhous, p. 104, 2005.
“Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.”

Source : James Broughton (1988). “75 Life Lines”
“A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.”
“Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.”
“He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.”

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