"I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?"

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Source : Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

Alice Meynell

“I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.”
“Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity â€“ the One of Parmenides â€“ of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God â€“ with a capital â€˜Gâ€™. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.”
“SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.”
“The shouting, the overrunning of the Capitol, the sneaking in of Tea Party participants into the basement of the Capitol, the name-calling, the spitting, all of that.... The Tea Party emerges as not only outrageous, but they have turned up the volume in ways that even Code Pink have not been able to do.”
“Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end.”
“I was made to believe there's something wrong with me,”
“Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.”
“Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.”

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