"For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache."

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Ivan Panin

#Love Quotes #Headache Quotes #Guillotine Quotes

“Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.”
“He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.”
“We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.39, Penguin
“After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.”
“Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.”
“A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.”
“In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.”
“There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.”

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