"although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch of grapes: / Although I have no love, / I do not want anything else, / Whether Love is gracious to me or hostile."

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Source : Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.335, Paulist Press

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“Wolves have no kings.”
“To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life ...”
“It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.”
“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.”
“Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.”
“In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.”

Source : Interview With Richard Gere, gotham-magazine.com. May 3, 2012.
“The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.”
“Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.”

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