"If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it."

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Source : Mark Gatiss (2009). “Black Butterfly: A Lucifer Box Novel”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

Mark Gatiss

#Light Quotes #Dying Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.”

Source : Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.8, Harper Collins
“But I've consistently worked for 10 years.”
“The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue.”
“It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.”

Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.121, University of Chicago Press
“Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.”

Source : Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. The end result is what matters. What one felt was what one experienced. One retires to bed as wearily from having dreamed as from having done hard physical labor. One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.”
“This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.”
“You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.”

Source : "Giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a question of democracy" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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