"Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns."

-- Victor Hugo

#Grief Quotes #Order Quotes #Essence Quotes

“You don't learn about sex from doing it with boys, but from talking about it with girls.”
“The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.”
“There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.”
“I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.”
“However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.”

Source : Laurie R. King (2014). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen”, p.297, Macmillan
“On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.”
“No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.”
“Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.”

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