"The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently."

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Source : Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.395

Gerald Massey

#Summer Quotes #Future Quotes #Eden Quotes

“Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.215, Vintage
“Don't be rushed, be sure.”
“We are going to file a suit to the Hague tribunal, which must investigate into these crimes against humanity, it is a test for humanity and moral dignity. Because turning a blind eye to such horrible and shameful crimes means indulging terrorists and aggressors and violating high European values for which Ukrainians are suffering and dying.”
“Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.”
“An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.”
“When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.”
“Onstage, I was never the ingenue.”
“The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.”

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