"For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art."

-- Victor Hugo

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“I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.”
“Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength.”
“I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.”
“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.”

Source : "Fictional character: One Stab". "Legends of the Fall", www.imdb.com. December 23, 1994.
“NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.”
“Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.”
“The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.”
“When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we give an accounting, naked we present our lives in bundles. See how much these weigh, we tell him, refusing to deny what we have lived. Everything that is touched by light loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, we who reel at the taste of sap and want our spirits cleansed, will not betray the weeds, snake, or crippled mare. Never leave behind what the light shone on.”

Source : Linda Gregg (1991). “Sacraments of Desire”, Graywolf Press

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