"Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot."

-- Arnold Bennett

#Mother Quotes #Sex Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.”
“The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.”

Source : Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.12, Vintage
“So, I simply switched over to wine because it was not carbonated.”
“The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.”

Source : "BBC plots Alan Clark drama" by Chris Tryhorn, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2003.
“There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.193, Penguin Books India
“Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”
“What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.”
“I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.”

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