"To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart."

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Source : Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.363

Samuel Lover

#Heart Quotes #Years Quotes #Long Quotes

“We're used to seeing fantasy explored from a male perspective, and the way men might see sex, have sex, want sex and even be addicted to sex. But I don't think women pursuing that sexuality within themselves is something that's talked about or experienced as often.”
“Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.”
“Love is the light that you see by.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press
“You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.”
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”
“My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear”
“It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.”

Source : James Smithson, John Robin McDaniel Irby (1879). “The Scientific Writings of James Smithson”
“All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

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