"Chess is and will always be a game of chance."

-- Jan Hein Donner

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“To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.”

Source : Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”
“There is one Metallica. We have many styles, it's called Metallica.”
“You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead”
“Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.”
“We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.”
“Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin
“I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.”
“The monk at St. Meinrad took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, â€˜I hope youâ€™ll hear what Iâ€™m about to tell you.Â I hope youâ€™ll hear it all the way down to your toes.Â When youâ€™re waiting, youâ€™re not doing nothing.Â Youâ€™re doing the most important something there is.Â Youâ€™re allowing your soul to grow up.Â If you canâ€™t be still and wait, you canâ€™t become what God created you to be.”

Source : Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions”, p.17, Harper Collins

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