"When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone."

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Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.55, A&C Black

Anne Michaels

#Dark Quotes #Sea Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.”
“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”
“The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.”
“Once you want something, everything changes.”

Source : "Matched". Book by Ally Condie, November 30, 2010.
“Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness and inferior mentality, could have but one general result throughout Christendom.”
“Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.”
“He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.32
“I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.”

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