"A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

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“Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.”

Source : Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.16, Profile Books
“The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.”
“In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.”
“I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.”
“A typical weeknight when he was home like this: 1. Sit down and try to do homework. 2. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: â€œPlease play with me!â€ 3. Ignore brother, try to do homework. 4. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: â€œCome ON, Steven! Iâ€™m BORED!â€ 5. Beg Jeffrey for five minutes of peace. 6. Get begged for five minutes of play: â€œSteven, you never, ever play with meâ€”ever!â€ 7. Move entire homework operations center to different room. 8. Repeat steps #1-7 as directed by small drugged maniac.”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.
“It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.”

Source : Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing
“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
“One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.”

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