"[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias."

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Source : Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

Dagmar Godowsky

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“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”

Source : Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”
“Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.”

Source : "What happened to Lani Garver". Book by Carol Plum-Ucci, 2002.
“...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”
“I want to study, to write to live and have a good time.”
“It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.”

Source : Belle S. Spafford (1971). “Women in today's world”
“Donald Trump is betraying everything that made America great: tolerance, democratic institutions and respect for the individual. In that sense, Trump is the most un-American U.S. president that the country has had in a long time.”
“When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.”

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