"Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses."

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Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

Siegfried Sassoon

#Passion Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Secret Quotes

“The New York fashion scene is crazy, madness, but I love the energy.”
“Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.”
“Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.”

Source : Lucy Eldine Parsons (2004). “Freedom, Equality and Solidarity”, Charles H Kerr Publishing Company
“Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?”

Source : "Anthology (Book 3)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.
“The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.”
“Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.”

Source : Letter to Lincoln on August 06, 1863. "Garibaldi (Great Lives Observed)". Book by Denis Mack Smith, 1969.
“And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.”
“I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.”

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