"Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be."

-- Oscar Romero

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“For me, we're all comfortable, we're all happy, hopefully, but at the same time something will happen and you have to kind of understand that phenomenon. You have to understand what's going on and I've always been fascinated by craziness and lunacy.”
“I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.”
“I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.193, Egmont UK
“True or true? Yes or yes?”
“When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.”
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
“See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.”
“I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2006). “Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived”, p.9, Penguin UK

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