"Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?"

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#Satisfaction Quotes #Gains Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered.”
“Success is not only one thing. Its not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.”
“I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.”
“From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.”
“Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.”
“They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.”
“Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.”

Source : Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”
“I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly.”

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