"So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity."

-- George Saunders

#Childhood Quotes #May Quotes #Gothic Quotes

“Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.”

Source : 1902 Speech at the Vereeniging peace talks, 31 May.
“I'm not going to leave Canada, I'm going to fix it.”
“Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.....”
“Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.”
“You can'tÂ worry what people think.”
“I dont want to be labeled one thing. My main thing I care about is being able to create the things I want to do with my friends, whatever platform that is.”
“Learn from Saint ThÃ©rÃ¨se to depend on God alone and serve Him with a wholly pure and detached heart. Then, like her, you will be able to say 'I do not regret that I have given myself up to Love'.”
“We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.”

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