"I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes."

-- Anais Nin

#Lying Quotes #Soul Quotes #Costumes Quotes

“It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman”
“My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.”
“Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.”
“Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.”

Source : Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.73, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“If you look at the movement of refugees, in Vladimir Lenin's phrase, "the people who voted with their feet," the movement of refugees until comparatively modern times was overwhelmingly from West to East, not from East to West. Refugees of all kinds were constantly fleeing from Christendom to the Islamic lands. Jews of course and Muslims of course, but even some Christians and the movement of refugees went overwhelmingly that way.”
“I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.”
“Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.”
“I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.”

Source : "Five Questions with Kris Allen". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2009.

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