"It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me."

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Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2012). “The House I Loved”, p.149, Macmillan

Tatiana de Rosnay

#Doubt Quotes #Trying Quotes #Noise Quotes

“It doesn't matter if you're good at anything, just try your best. Then there's the idea that individually they're flawed but together they can do amazing things. I think that's a very nice message and it's not something you hit people over the head with. It just comes with The Muppets; it's what they're about. It's that kind of innocent try, try, try quality. And it also makes them underdogs. You can't help but support the underdog.”
“When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.”
“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and Iâ€™ll tell you a story.”
“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”
“Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.”

Source : Douglas A. Blackmon (2012). “Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two”, p.381, Icon Books
“There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible.”
“I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.”
“Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.”

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