"Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art."

-- Frederic Chopin

#Beautiful Quotes #Art Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.”
“The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.”
“I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.”

Source : "Amazon.com Review: Questions for Annette Gordon-Reed". www.amazon.com.
“My priority is to hang out with the ones I love - my family, my loved ones.”
“Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.”
“A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'”
“The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage
“If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.”

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