"No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Writing Quotes #Sake Quotes #Subjects Quotes

“We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course.”
“I am for lasting peace... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a different peace, one with full recognition of the rights of the Jews in their one and only land: peace with security for generations and peace with a united Jerusalem as the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people in the state of Israel forever.”
“The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.”
“Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.”
“In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.”
“Humans are allergic to change.”
“Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.”
“Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.”

Source : Vachel Lindsay (1992). “The Congo and Other Poems”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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