"The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us."

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Source : "John Christopher: Journey's end".

Romain Rolland

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #Rome Quotes

“Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.”
“We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.”

Source : "David Moyes admits Manchester United aspire to be more like arch-rivals City" by Ed Malyon, www.mirror.co.uk. March 25, 2014.
“Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.”
“One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.”

Source : Tobias Wolff (2004). “Old School”, p.129, Vintage
“I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.”
“A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?”
“I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.”
“You fall off the horse and you get back on.”

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