"No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from."

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Source : Song: Life Uncommon, Album: Spirit, 1998

Jewel

“Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.”
“True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.”
“An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.”
“Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I not only read it since many years ago, but I understand it. Moreover, I speak it intimately too.”

Source : YouTube Chanel "Edelweiss Garcia i Fuentes"/ "L' Aznar destrossant la llengua catalana", www.youtube.com. December 28, 2006.
“If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.”
“Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.”
“One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadnâ€™t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company
“I consider myself a student of life.”

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