"I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters."

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Source : Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.186, Macmillan

Louise Penny

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“All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.”

Source : John Milton (1851). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.387
“After all, in supporting phenomenal concepts I am in a sense siding with introspection against the more behaviourist Wittgensteinians. But even so I don't think that introspection is powerful enough to resolve the specific issue about how many colours you can see.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com.
“The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold, by way of a rope; and it's a dark road, with never any moon shining on it, to light your way.”
“Somebody said recently that the best thing a student could do was to get in some shows and publish a book; but nothing about becoming a human being, nothing about having important feelings or concepts of humanity. That's the sort of thing that is bad education. I'd say be a human being first and if you happen to wind up using photography, that's good for photography.”
“I created my foundation as a result of that and my website, and I try to shed some light on some very topical issues right now. The idea is to try to get people to become obviously more knowledgeable about the issue and try to get corporations and individuals to contribute to these nonprofit organizations.”
“Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.”
“What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but the whole Church alike? He shall then see to it that he cleave unto antiquity, which is now utterly incapable of being seduced by any craft or novelty.”
“Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for, He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us.”

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