"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."

-- Albert Camus

#Sometimes Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.”
“It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became a magnet for the great camera artists of the world, a target for the jaded, lately hostile eyes of people who had hardly known that popular music existed.”

Source : Brian Epstein (2011). “A Cellarful of Noise”, p.72, Souvenir Press
“The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.”
“At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.”
“He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.”
“I believe in reincarnation of the soul.”
“Love is the outreach of self toward completion.”
“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, Iâ€™ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think itâ€™s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasnâ€™t picked out, Juliet wasnâ€™t picked out. You donâ€™t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.473, Everyman's Library

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