"Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others."

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Source : Edward Carpenter “The Intermediate Sex”, Routledge

Edward Carpenter

#Strong Quotes #Block Quotes #Heart Quotes

“You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.”

Source : "Emma Donoghue: the books interview" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.
“The church is not made up of spiritual giants; only broken men can lead others to the cross.”

Source : David J. Bosch (2001). “A Spirituality of the Road”, p.77, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved â€” I do not expect the house to fall â€” but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”
“I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.”

Source : "The prosecution of Rebekah Brooks and her husband: the statements", www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.
“The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.”
“When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.”
“Iâ€™m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also arenâ€™t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and donâ€™t want to be around them.”
“Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.”

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