"We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike."

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Source : Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.315, Macmillan

Jacqueline Carey

#Life Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Taste Quotes

“Understanding brings control.”

Source : Isaac Bonewits, Philip Emmons Isaac Bonewits (1989). “Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Light”, p.3, Weiser Books
“It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all.”
“I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.”
“I believe it is a spirit of hope that gathers us here together today.”
“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function”
“His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.”
“I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.”

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