"The moon is brighter since the barn burned."

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Matsuo Basho

#Moon Quotes #Barns Quotes #Burned Quotes

“In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.”
“I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.”
“The perception that Donald Trump has softened on immigration or is about to soften on immigration has some on the right concerned that he could lose support among his most loyal base of supporters, though he`d been drawn to his hard-line positions on immigration early in the campaign.”
“Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.”
“For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but which has a connection to art which is 4,000 years old.”
“The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.”
“I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.”
“But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship ...”

Source : Charlotte CHARKE (1826). “A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait”

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