"How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life."

-- Paul Celan

#Lasts Quotes #Splinters Quotes #Worn Quotes

“Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.”

Source : "Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author: A Conversation between Maurice Sendak and Virginia Haviland". Book by Virginia Haviland, 1970.
“I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall.”
“British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom.”
“Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.”
“I know that I set an example so I don't want niggas following my steps. I don't want anybody to go do the things that I did cuz for real at times I didn't even think I was gonna make it. I was hoping I didn't get killed. I don't want nobody to try to live my life.”

Source : Source: halftimeonline.net
“I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.”
“I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept of religion. in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together. ... because of science and its applications to human life, for these have bloomed in my time as no one in history had had ever dreamed could be possible.”
“But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.”

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