"Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it."

-- Michelle Black

#Differences Quotes #Lust Quotes #Pity Quotes

“I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.”

Source : "Take In Tilda Swinton’s Wisdom With This Beautiful Speech From The Rothko Chapel" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2015.
“Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.”
“Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.”
“I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.”
“You know how it feels when you're in love with somebody and you long to be with that person? God wants us to feel that way about Him.”
“It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.”
“Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.”
“There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.”

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