"Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?"

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Source : "Drei Matones" (1904-1915). As quoted in "Peretz" by S. Liptzin, p. 187, 1947.

I. L. Peretz

#Stars Quotes #Sky Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun; When the graps on the bow was decision, And arrow and hand and eye were one; When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer, Came heaving for rapture ahead! - Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer As lights over mounds of the dead.”
“Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.”
“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
“I'll meet you at the altar" "I'll be the one in white!”
“If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.”
“What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call the here and now. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.”
“If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.”
“Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.”

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