"He who placed me in this seat will keep me here."

-- Elizabeth I

“Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.”
“Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.”
“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”
“At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took....”
“Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.”

Source : René Char (1954). “Leaves of Hypnos (extracts): And Lettera Amorosa”
“The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.”
“One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.”
“After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.”

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