"The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day."

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Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.234, Penguin

Peter Matthiessen

#Heart Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Secret Quotes

“I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.”
“If you have nothing to say, say nothing.”
“And the whole is greater than the part.”

Source : "Euclid's Elements, Book I, Common Notion 8". Book by Euclid,
“At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.”

Source : John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”
“When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.”
“Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.”

Source : "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 5), 1688.
“Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.”
“As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

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