"I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old."

-- Hans-Georg Gadamer

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes

“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.”

Source : William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229
“The sky lay over the city like a map showing the strata of things and the big full moon toppled over in a furrow like the abandoned wheel of a gun carriage on a sunset field of battle and the shadows walked like cats and I looked into the white and ghostly interior of things and thought of you and I looked on their structural outsides and thought of you and was lonesome.”
“Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in.”
“The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.”
“Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.”
“I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.”
“It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.”
“We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2014). “The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel”, p.448, Ballantine Books

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