"As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we."

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Source : Julie Kagawa (2013). “The Iron Fey Volume One: The Iron King\The Iron Daughter”, p.187, Harlequin

Julie Kagawa

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“I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself.”
“Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind”

Source : Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
“The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.”
“I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's.”
“Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression.”
“If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin
“Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.”
“Friedrich Engels once said: "Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." What does "regression into barbarism" mean to our lofty European civilization? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization.”

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