"A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow."

-- Boris Pasternak

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“Media, the plural of mediocrity.”
“I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.”
“A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.”
“To do well does not mean everything will always turn out well. The key is to remember that faith and obedience are still the answers, even when things go wrong, perhaps especially when things go wrong.”
“I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.”
“If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.”
“I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an historic monument, but it does not deserve all the respect given it when it is said it is perfect, original and coherent expression of a past that we must revere. Orsay is basically a box.”
“Papa, please get the moon for me.”

Source : Eric Carle (1998). “Stories for All Seasons”, Simon & Schuster

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