"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

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Source : Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press

Walt Whitman

#Spiritual Quotes #Truth Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?”
“You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules”
“They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.”
“Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.”
“After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."”

Source : Henry Green (1992). “Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green”, Random House (UK)
“The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean...”
“Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine,”

Source : "The Confession: City business has been eclipsed by Rob Ford's attempt to avoid embarrassment". www.ctvnews.ca. November 9, 2013.
“The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.”

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