"The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world."

-- Tove Jansson

#Circles Quotes #Darkness Quotes #World Quotes

“We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.”
“You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life ...”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Oxford University Press
“The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because they have to be Superior. What is different about Islam is it's not just a type of food you ate or the way you dress, it's a total system of life driven by values...”
“The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ("I feel full of worship" or "The atmosphere is so worshipful"). Actually, it is theological. Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.”
“I would do this for free as long as you're doing it for free.”
“She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.”
“Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.”
“So when people ask Galbraith, why is the change in ***** laws important to the people of this country, because it returns to the people the right to plant a seed in God's earth and consume the green natural plant that comes up out of it.”

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