"It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love."

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Jacques Maritain

#Believe Quotes #Burning Quotes #Baptists Quotes

“I am infinitely strange to myself.”

Source : JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”
“People souls - perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars.”

Source : "Loneliness" by Antoni Lange,
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
“I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.”
“New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.”
“Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.”
“The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin”
“I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.”

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