"Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye."

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Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.524, A&C Black

Jeffrey Eugenides

#Goodbye Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Winning Quotes

“It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.”
“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.”
“Where passion leads or prudence points the way.”

Source : Robert Lowth, Rev. Peter HALL (1834). “Sermons, and other remains, ... now first collected and arranged, ... with an introductory memoir by ... P. Hall, etc. (P. Barton's sermon at the consecration of Bishop Lowth.).”, p.477
“Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.”
“It is just awesome, thereâ€™s no other way to describe it. To be the first to win in a Gen-6 car â€¦ Iâ€™m just very proud of the moment.”
“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world.”
“The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.”
“This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.”

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