"Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others."

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Source : Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.137, Macmillan

Charles de Lint

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“Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves.”

Source : Gaston Leroux (2016). “GOTHIC CRIME MYSTERIES – Premium Collection: The Phantom of the Opera, The Mystery of the Yellow Room, The Secret of the Night, The Man with the Black Feather & Balaoo: Thriller Classics”, p.814, e-artnow
“I love my fans very much. They give me the confidence to continue things in life.”
“That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.”
“I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.”
“I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.”
“Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.”
“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.”
“Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.”

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