"I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves."

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Henri Barbusse

#Believe Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Divinity Quotes

“Man is, above all, he who creates.”
“The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.”
“Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.”
“I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.”
“In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.”
“At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?”
“To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.”

Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.168, Ballantine Books
“My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.”

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