"There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another."

-- Ivan Turgenev

#Pain Quotes #Joy Quotes #Causes Quotes

“The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts for long. The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.”

Source : "The Real Bill Ayers". Article by William Ayers, www.nytimes.com. December 05, 2008.
“It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.”
“It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.”
“As busy as I am wherever I am, I...”
“There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.”
“...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.”
“Our real reality is beyond the five senses.”
“One reason writers write is out of revenge.”

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