"Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.."

-- Milan Kundera

#Tombstone Quotes #Flower Quotes #Garden Quotes

“Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.”
“I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.”
“The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.”

Source : 1921 The Crow's Nest,'In His Baby Blue Ship'.
“MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.”
“We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I'm not trying to look for excuses but that's the reality.”
“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.”
“Don't worry about things that you have no control over, because you have no control over them. Don't worry about things that you have control over, because you have control over them.”
“What I think is so special about "Goosebumps" [movie] is it kind of a badge of courage for kids. They're scared and then they get through it and they're so proud of themselves that they made it through.”

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