"But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime."

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Source : Nancy Farmer (2015). “The Sea of Trolls”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

Nancy Farmer

#Fate Quotes #Joy Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.”
“A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”
“No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest shovel into his stores.”
“No one writes about the emotional things you go through.”
“he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.”
“While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.”
“If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

Source : Salvador Dali (2013). “50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship”, p.15, Courier Corporation
“Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.”

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