"Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price."

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Jonathan Stroud

#Illusion Quotes

“The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that testimony which, I believe, God bears in every human heart, however dull, to those great truths which the Bible reveals. This, and not logic, is the way to grow in religious knowledge, to know that the truths of religion are not shadows, but deep realities.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.116
“I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.”

Source : Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.481, Harvard University Press
“I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.”
“The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.”
“Portland is where young people go to retire.”
“People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.”

Source : Source: writingfighting.wordpress.com
“Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.”
“Often what I need is even a darker darkness.”

Source : Valzhyna Mort (2014). “Collected Body”, p.5, Copper Canyon Press

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