"Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason."

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Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Maeterlinck and I”

Georgette Leblanc

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“Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.”
“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.”
“Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.”
“Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.”
“If you miss one day in physics, that's it.”

Source : "Family secrets (part 2)" by Chris Heath, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.
“But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn.”
“Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.”

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