"I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin."

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Henry James

#Cousin Quotes #Your Cousin Quotes

“Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.”

Source : Diane Wakoski (1988). “Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987”, p.102, David R. Godine Publisher
“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.”
“Whatever inspires you is an aspect of yourself. Any desire of the heart exists to support you in discovering and manifesting it. If you have an aspiration to be something, it is because you have the potential to manifest the quality you are seeing and the behavior that this quality will bring forth.”
“The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject.Â For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern.Â It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who donâ€™t have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.”
“Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill, Anthony Horneck, Henry More (1966). “Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions [!] (1689)”
“Love isn't lying, it's loose in a lady who lingers, saying she is lost, and choking on hello.”
“If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.”
“What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.”

Source : Ursula Hegi (2011). “Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My Mother's Palm, Stones from the River, The Vision of Emma Blau. Children and Fire”, p.675, Simon and Schuster

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