"In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs."

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Kim Hyesoon

#Song Quotes #Disease Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“Putin himself is a bit of a risk taker, so the invading Ukraine, in the east in particular - Crimea was risky.”
“Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.”
“I've made a few nice dishes in my time, but this must be the best I've ever made.”
“The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. And we have seen a dramatic increase, the last 10-15 years, of ethnical conflicts and humanitarian crises with human rights violations as important elements., but also more of corruption. Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.”
“Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate. Plutarch stepped out of the stream to create an essayistic form that relied on a digressive structure and down to earth anecdotes.”

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“What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams.”
“True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.”
“If God exists He must be manifest somehow in matter, and His ways are what science is discovering.”

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