"Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies."

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Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

Nathalia Crane

#Butterfly Quotes #Blue Quotes #Vision Quotes

“The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.”
“When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.”

Source : Charles A. Murray (2006). “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State”, Aei Press
“Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.”
“Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.”
“Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.”

Source : "January 22, 1973: Roe v. Wade", www.cnn.com. March 10, 2003.
“If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.”
“Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.”
“But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.”

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