"A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one."

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Source : William Rounseville Alger (1865). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.228

William Rounseville Alger

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“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!”
“I started my own record label.”
“I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed.”
“If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.”
“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.”
“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
“You have to have a business model you believe in and like.”

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“The â€˜equilibriumâ€™ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. Itâ€™s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.”

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