"As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert."

-- Julio Cortazar

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“Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.”
“Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.”

Source : Hugh Walpole (1985). “The Herries Chronicles”
“There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.”
“Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.”
“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.”
“Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.”
“A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.”

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