"Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it."

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Source : Jens Peter Jacobsen (1917). “Marie Grubbe: A Lady of the Seventeenth Century”

Jens Peter Jacobsen

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“I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.”
“Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.”
“There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.”

Source : "The House by the Side of the Road" l. 7 (1898)
“I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if itâ€™s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.”
“The only thing that matters is when the team wins.”
“What's the go of that? What's the particular go of that?”
“I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.”
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.”

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