"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world."

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Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing

Madeline Miller

#Love Quotes #Smell Quotes #Feet Quotes

“A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.”
“If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.”
“All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.”
“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”

Source : A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA
“Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.”
“We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.”
“It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.”
“Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.”

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