"Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches."

-- Octavio Paz

#Dark Quotes #Wind Quotes #Tree Quotes

“The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (1986). “Nobody's Angel”, Vintage
“In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”
“I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.”
“You can imagine how the kids teased me, with a name like Chris Hemsworth. 'Kiss Ham'sWart'-that's what they called me. Meaning if there was a piece of ham with an ugly wart on it, I was such a loser I'd probably kiss it. It was endless.”
“There's not a single Democrat here. It's almost like CPAC invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Well, we could have had Hillary here, but we couldn't find a foreign nation to foot the bill.”
“Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.”
“Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere.”
“The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years”

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