"Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."

-- William Butler Yeats

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“Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.”

Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe”, p.853, Library of America
“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”
“An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?”

Source : "Happy Birthday Francis Ford Coppola! Watch His Wild Early Movie ‘Dementia 13’ For Free" by Emily Buder, www.indiewire.com. April 7, 2014.
“Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.”
“I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.”
“The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.”
“Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]”
“And that said, this [issues of comfort women] is important for reopening a conversation in both Japan and in Korea and on their respective understandings of history. Policymakers are going to be trumpeting this deal, but you know, as of now, we just don't know whether the women themselves who are actually victims will think this agreement is enough.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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