"One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity."

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Ivan Turgenev

#Fire Quotes #Earth Quotes #May Quotes

“What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.”

Source : Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.34, Broadway Books
“There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.”
“Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.”
“If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.”
“If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.”
“I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.”
“Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade.”
“The beautiful thing about TODAY is that you get the choice to make it better than YESTERDAY”

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