"It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies."

-- Harriet Martineau

#Baby Quotes #Nurse Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.”
“The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.”
“In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man and built up the human species, even a most fervent atheist will wonder if Darwin found the visible road but not the invisible mechanism.”
“I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music.”
“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.”
“If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.”
“Health is an announcement of agreement between your body, mind and spirit. Honor your body, keep it in good shape. When you are not healthy, look to see which parts of you disagree. Your body will demonstrate the truth to you. Notice what it is showing you, listen to what it is saying.”
“As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.”

Source : Geoffrey Hill (2000). “New & Collected Poems, 1952-1992”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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