"When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay."

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Source : Octave Mirbeau (2007). “The Diary of a Chambermaid”, Harper Collins

Octave Mirbeau

#Smell Quotes #Giving Quotes #People Quotes

“I'm inspired by struggles. I've been through several really big ones in my life and I'm reminded of how God pulled me out of these certain situations and how my life was affected by that, so of course I don't like the hard times at all and I know it sounds really clichÃ© to say 'hang in there' but it's a true thing, if you're actually believing in what our creator can do.”
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
“An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.”
“Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.”

Source : Sebastian Smee, Lucian Freud (2007). “Lucian Freud”, Taschen America Llc
“We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.”
“The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.”
“Transgression is a quest for solitude”

Source : Adam Phillips (2017). “In Writing”, p.85, Penguin UK
“Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.”

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