"I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting."

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Source : Jill Ker Conway (2011). “The Road from Coorain”, p.235, Vintage

Jill Ker Conway

#Moon Quotes #Sky Quotes #Earth Quotes

“The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.”

Source : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”
“As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.”
“Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.”
“Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.”
“A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.”
“I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell.”
“A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.”
“Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.”

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