"I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns."

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Source : Jules Massenet (1971). “My Recollections (1848-1912).”

Jules Massenet

#Stars Quotes #Departed Quotes #Useless Quotes

“There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go by. It seems to me like that is a new piece of bad manners. Probably. Generally I assume that anything that happens now happened to Adam and Eve also.”
“Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.”
“I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.”

Source : Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”
“That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.”
“I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.”
“Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.”
“Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.”
“I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.”

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