"The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty."

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Marthe Bibesco

#Love Is Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.”
“In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.”
“...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.”
“The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.”
“I have come to see the real clash of the ages, involve wars and various historical circumstances, as being a clash of satan' s versus God's plan for man to learn and experience true liberty, by first receiving forgiveness of sins through the work of Christ on the cross, and then walking in the 'newness of life.”
“I can't sit still for 10 minutes.”
“I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.”
“In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406 billion is pathetically squandered on interest, just because we lacked the discipline to pay our bills when due.”

Source : Bill Press (2008). “Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon)”, p.192, John Wiley & Sons

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