"How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed."

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Source : "Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age" edited by Louis Klopsch, (p. 229), 1896.

Suzanne Curchod

#Prejudice Quotes #Sin Quotes #Committed Quotes

“If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.”
“I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.”

Source : "A literature of our own" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2008.
“To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.”
“If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.”

Source : Kimberly Willis Holt (2011). “My Louisiana Sky”, p.34, Macmillan
“I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.”
“I have several children who I'm turning into killers. Wait till they grow up.”
“I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.”
“When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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