"Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love."

-- Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

#Lust Quotes #Excess Quotes #Human Nature Quotes

“Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.”
“In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.”
“I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, â€œOh my god, people are paying attention to me, I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and try to seem really cool.â€ I had this moment of being commercially self conscious and it took maybe a month for me to realize no, this is not who I ****ing am, and here's a picture of me in drag. Which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing. There's not a more sure fire way to give a stifled, boring, empty, vapid, meaningless interview than trying to say the right thing...”

Source : "Misha Collins Then and Now - Our Reciprocal Interviews with Castiel's Alter Ego". Interview with Lynn Zubernis, fangasmthebook.wordpress.com. March 12, 2012.
“They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.”
“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.”
“The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.”
“The feel of the place was deep, the prehistoric heartbeat of the rocks complicating the music, the people bright, all different kinds of dancers, smilers, swayers, swirlers, smokers, beer-drinking boppers, tripsters, spinners. I looked back at the crowd...and saw the show for a moment as a jewel...like a gem in a bracelet: an ornament on the body of the country, glittering in the coming darkness.”

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