"It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is."

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Jacqueline Carey

#Thinking Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Lines Quotes

“You know, when you engage so much with somebody it seems like the subjects never end. You can actually talk forever, and I felt like that with my wife. And at some point we shut up and got married.”
“As for the fashion world, the one thing I respect is its shallowness: it's so deep - it's so serious. It can be hard to get that kind of shallowness because of its depth and seriousness.”
“Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.”
“[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.”

Source : Eduard Suess (1904). “The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)”
“If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.”
“Sweet cherry wine, so very fine, take it on down, pass it all around.”
“To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?”

Source : Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”
“If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.”

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