"Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt."

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Source : Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.10

Christiaan Huygens

#Cost Quotes #Earth Quotes #Dull Quotes

“I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.”
“Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.”
“When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.”
“I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.”
“Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!”

Source : Sadegh Hedayat (2010). “The Blind Owl”, p.33, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.”
“[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.”

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