"It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events."

-- Andre Maurois

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“I think that we see war as a virtual thing and we even get to believe that bombs fall on top of cardboard cutouts and stuff like that. They don't. They kill real people, real children, real mothers and millions of innocent people.”
“If it goes well with you, then all is well.”
“It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.”

Source : "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramon Jimenez (p. 231), 1957.
“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
“I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.25, Pan Macmillan
“Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine â€• that is, activity â€• which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing â€• a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy.”
“We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in music unless you studied to do music.”

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