"It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view."

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Source : Sabrina Jeffries (2006). “Only a Duke Will Do”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

Sabrina Jeffries

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“With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.”
“If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream-a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows-is essentially poetry.”

Source : Michel Leiris (1987). “Nights as day, days as night”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
“I felt, "Oh, film is a great art because I can pull in music and visual imagery, and it has its literary aspects and drama." Film was a sort of Wagnerian synthesis of the arts, as opposed to opera, which Wagner had thought would be. That's another art form that has seen its best days.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.”

Source : Reginald Heber (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.227
“It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.”
“The word humility (also human) is derived from the Latin humus, meaning the soil. Perhaps this is not simply because it entails stooping and returning to earthly origins, but also because, as we are rooted in this earth of everyday life, we find in it all the vitality and fertility unnoticed by people who merely tramp on across the surface, drawn by distant landscapes.”
“When you think of the debonair, ridiculously good-looking guy, you think of me.”
“A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.”

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