"When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions."

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Louise Colet

#Greatness Quotes #Pedestal Quotes #Dimensions Quotes

“What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.”
“So I'm scared, because you're not just not human, you're not like anyone....there's nobody like you in all the world and it's you I want. I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.”
“You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.”
“If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.”
“Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside.”
“In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.”

Source : John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”
“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.209, Macmillan
“Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.”

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