"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past"

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Past Quotes #Priestesses Quotes

“When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.”
“The phone rang. I picked it up. "Kate Daniels" "It's me," Curran said. "Iâ€”" I hung up.”
“God has pity on kindergarten children”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai”, p.18, Univ of California Press
“A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.”
“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.”

Source : "Sprachanalyse und Soziologie". Book by Rolf Wiggershaus, 1972.
“The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.”

Source : Comment to his brother Allen. Quoted in Peter Grose Gentleman Spy (1994).
“Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.”
“It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.”

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