"To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering."

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Gwen John

#Suffering Quotes #Passionate Quotes #Violence Quotes

“I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.”

Source : Works 'A Treatise on Gout and Dropsy' (transl. R. G. Latham) (1683)
“Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.11, Univ of California Press
“The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.”

Source : "Why Short Advertising Copy Does NOT Sell More" by Ira Kalb, www.businessinsider.com. May 28, 2013.
“Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.”
“Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there;Â Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.63
“Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.”
“Courage means being afraid to do something, but still doing it.”
“I don't crave publicity, you know.”

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