"A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess."

-- Oleg Romanishin

#Success Quotes #Winning Quotes #Self Quotes

“Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.”
“The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.”
“The historian records, but the novelist creates.”
“To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.”
“Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.”

Source : "‘Little White Lies’ Writer-Director Guillaume Canet on His Personal French Drama and Making the Upcoming ‘Blood Ties’ in the U.S." by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 22, 2012.
“He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.”
“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacleâ€”the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.”

Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Scented gardens for the blind: a novel”, George Braziller
“I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.”

Source : FaceBook post by Adèle Exarchopoulos from Dec 02, 2015

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