"Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined."

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Source : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

Vernon Lee

#Mean Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The artist is justified by his art.”

Source : Lewis Foreman Day (1903). “Stained Glass”
“Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?”
“We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn't ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there's a lot of tundra that's being held down by that ice cap.”
“Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.”
“A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.”
“I love singing. I've never felt I've had a great voice but I feel I've gotten better. It's funny. I can hear my voice aging and getting stronger. I've relaxed about my singing so I'm hearing it the way I like it.”

Source : Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com
“The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.”

Source : Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett (2013). “The Long War: (Long Earth 2)”, p.29, Random House
“Life delights in life.”

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