"If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body."

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Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”

Selma LagerlÃ¶f

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“After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insights. Strange, private worlds rarely slip past our guard.”

Source : Henry Holmes Smith, James Enyeart (1986). “Henry Holmes Smith: collected writings 1935-1985”, Center for Creative Photography
“Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.”
“Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.”
“A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.”
“Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.”

Source : "The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina" by Gerda Lerner, Ch. 5, 1969.
“Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.”
“There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.”

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