"Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end."

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Source : "Karel Čapek: Life and Work". Book by Ivan Klima, 2002.

Karel Capek

#Triumph Quotes #Might Quotes #Melancholy Quotes

“The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.”
“~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~”
“Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.”
“Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.”
“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
“But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.”
“Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience....this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.”

Source : Rupert Spira (2016). “Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness”, New Harbinger Publications
“All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.”

Source : Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Space Between”, p.101, Penguin

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