"I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull."

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John Galsworthy

#Wine Quotes #Drug Quotes #Dull Quotes

“A grave is such a quiet place.”
“You have to surround yourself with friends and loved ones because they're the only ones that will fight for you. It's always a battle to get the extra feeling in there, to push it further, to lose yourself. We can't be living constantly with some numb relationship.”
“When I learned that there was such a thing as an atheist, I looked it up - and found out that the definition fitted me to a tee. Finally, at the age of 24, I found out who and what I was. Better late than never.”
“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”

Source : Song: Sir Duke, 1976
“What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge that the slightest relaxation of its authority would give day to reaction.”

Source : Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.133, University of Iowa Press
“Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs”
“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”
“Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.”

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