"Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was."

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Source : Jens Peter Jacobsen (2008). “Niels Lyhne”, p.20, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Jens Peter Jacobsen

#Light Quotes #Ice Quotes #Speech Quotes

“To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or notâ€”that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.”
“Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.”

Source : Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.181, Pickle Partners Publishing
“When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.”
“Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.”
“No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong.”
“Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Lord, what are you trying to teach me?”
“The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.”

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