"I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded."

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Source : "The last days of Pompeii". Book by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1834.

Edward George, Baron George

#Flower Quotes #Light Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Not adding value is the same as taking it away.”
“Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.”
“Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.”
“I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.”
“What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way will we know whether our home life is normal or whether we live in a dysfunctional solar family.”
“I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.”
“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time...”
“Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.”

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