"By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!"

-- Jean Racine

#Suicide Quotes #Passion Quotes #Flames Quotes

“If knowledge is not democratized, power can never be.”
“Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.”

Source : John Ross Macduff (1855). “The mind of Jesus”, p.59
“The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.”
“You must make your choice whether to hold on to some thing which cannot save you, or let go, and fall into the hands of the Lord.”
“Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how furiously you rage, Cursing this blood and brimstone age, How furiously against your will You kill and kill again, and kill: All thought of peace behind you cast, Till like small boys with fear aghast, Each cries for God to understand, 'I could not help it, it was my hand.”
“Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East”
“The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.”
“She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.”

Source : Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “The Painted Bird”, p.70, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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