"Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

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“Focus on your strengths.”
“My bag was as light as my happy-go-lucky heart.”

Source : Tove Jansson (2006). “A Winter Book: Selected Stories”, Sort of Books
“Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.”
“Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.”
“I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.”

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“Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.”
“Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the only right way with literature, with study, with people or with anything else: to let it all soak in, to let it all mature slowly inside you until it has become a part of yourself. That, too, is a growing process. Everything is a growing process. And in between, emotions and sensations that strike you like lightning. But still the most important thing is the organic process of growing.”
“when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.”

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