"It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life."

-- Henry James

#Long Quotes #Matter Quotes #Particular Quotes

“Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary--and terrible elegant.”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job. What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.”
“For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press
“Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.”

Source : "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.
“Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.”
“In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.”
“So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.”
“I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.”

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