"We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine."

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Source : Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.154, 1st World Publishing

Henri Barbusse

#Laughter Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“When it comes to finances, it matters less how much money you make and more how you spend it.”
“We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.”
“I stew all night in my own grease.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 649-652, Virgil Travestie, p. 35, 1922.
“When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.”
“Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing in her heart that she would never fear them again. No matter what mists might curl around her in the future, she knew her refuge. She started briskly up the street toward home and the blocks seemed very long. Far, far too long. She caught up her skirts to her knees and began to run lightly. But this time she was not running from fear. She was running because Rhett's arms were at the end of the street.”
“We all have levels of performance.”
“I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.”
“What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.”

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