"Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion."

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Kiki Dimoula

#Soothing Quotes #Esteem Quotes #Lotion Quotes

“When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.”
“You know how I feel about you, Bluefur. I'd do my best to make you happy, I promise. And I'll love your kits as though they were my own.”
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.”
“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
“Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money.”
“One, Andrew Carnegie said, â€˜He who dies with wealth dies in shame.â€™ And someone once said, â€˜He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.â€™”
“This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores the world has ever seen.”
“A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". TV Series "The Waltons" ("The Hunt", 1972), www.imdb.com. (1971–1981).

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