"Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity."

-- Simone Weil

#Stars Quotes #Giving Quotes #Tree Quotes

“The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
“We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.”
“Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.”
“The goal of the Redemption is the redemption of truth.”
“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”
“In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.”
“If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (2012). “Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics”, p.96, Princeton University Press
“[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion.”

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