"All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Children Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Soul Quotes

“If someone has a boy who gets to age 18 without something [a bone] being fractured, that kid has been overly controlled.”
“I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.”
“If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?”
“Look, if I were running the FBI, you know, I probably would want to have backdoors as well, so I'm sympathetic to the director's view. But there is risk if you put that backdoor in. There's no question you enhance the risk, number one. Number two, there are the privacy implications that are of concern to parties.”
“I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 3, 1895.
“All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.”
“Whenever possible print a woman's age.”

Source : 1957 Quoted in Francis Williams Dangerous Estate.
“Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord”

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