"All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness."

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Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1985). “The solace of open spaces”, Viking Pr

Gretel Ehrlich

#Sadness Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.”
“Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.”
“We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them.”
“We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team...”

Source : "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.
“Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.”

Source : Randy Shilts (2011). “And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic”, p.496, Souvenir Press
“Endless is the search of truth.”

Source : Laurence Sterne (1788). “The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.155
“I loved challenging myself every day. The weight room was my therapy for everyday life stresses. No matter what I was doing I always wanted to be the best.”

Source : "Exclusive Ronnie Coleman Interview with SpotMeBro". spotmebro.com. March 2, 2016.
“Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.”

Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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