"The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!"

-- Gustave Flaubert

#Flower Quotes #Heart Quotes #Dust Quotes

“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
“Southerners smile more than other Americans.”
“Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.”
“Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.”
“Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.”
“Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.313, Scholastic Inc.
“My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.”
“I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.”

Source : Conrad Black (2012). “A Matter of Principle”, p.61, Encounter Books

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