"When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.”
“There seems to be some coverage these days that somehow terrorism is not a big problem. Or somehow, national security is all taken care of, and that's just not true.”
“There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.”
“When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.110, New Victoria Publishers
“[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.”
“Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort.”
“Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.”
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

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