"Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel"

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Source : Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.765, Delphi Classics

Ivan Turgenev

#Nature Quotes #Wheels Quotes #Care Quotes

“Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.”
“Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.”
“I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.”
“Sometimes its nice when people you love need you.”
“The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.”
“The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.181, LSU Press
“Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.”
“Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity, are now pleading our cause with earnestness and zeal.”

Source : Richard Allen (1880). “The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen: To which is Annexed, the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America : Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of Our Lord 1793 : with an Address to the People of Color in the United States”

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