"Most people, in the end, really are all on their own."

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Source : Nova Ren Suma (2011). “Imaginary Girls”, p.69, Penguin

Nova Ren Suma

#People Quotes #Ends Quotes

“In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.”

Source : John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière
“The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block.”

Source : "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.
“I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.”
“The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children.”

Source : Ian Stevenson (1980). “Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation”, p.3, University of Virginia Press
“You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. To-day we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.”
“Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.”
“I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.”
“I feel obligated to offer the audience a good fight, and I have a responsibility to entertain the fans. But I also can't make the mistake of underestimating that bull. I would be stupid if I did. No matter how well prepared I am for a bullfight, I never know what will happen in the ring. I don't know how the bull will react and whether he'll give me an opportunity to display my skills. Perhaps he'll be too stubborn for that. And then there's also the wind that makes me afraid. It's a torero's greatest enemy.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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