"Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone."

-- Emile M. Cioran

#Powerful Quotes #Blow Quotes #Brain Quotes

“The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.”
“I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.”
“Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.”
“Each one of us has some goal we want to reach, and we must work toward that goal one step at a time. You canâ€™t reach toward that goal and expect it on the first try. All your small steps will bring you just a little closer. You must continue to work toward this goal. You may take a few steps back or be at a standstill, but you will be learning from each step. Through hard work, self-confidence and motivation, you will find ways to move ahead. You alone can help yourself to move ahead in life and gain personal satisfaction. You only get out of life what you put into it.”
“And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.”

Source : Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.103, The Oleander Press
“Universities in general and my university in particular really has to reach out and find ways to engage more with a broader array of ideas and political thought.”
“The most useless are those who never change through the years.”
“When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"”

Source : Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen

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