"The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry."

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Source : James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.143

James Hervey

#Wall Quotes #Tree Quotes #Covering Quotes

“Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.”
“I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.”
“Gratitude is one of the most effective ways of getting in touch with your soul.”
“You never know, life is short but itâ€™s wide”
“The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance”
“When you nag, you become the problem, an he deals with it by turning you out, but when you dont nag, he deals with the problem.”
“I'm a big David Lynch fan.”
“This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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