"We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person."

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Source : Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

Nelly Sachs

#Knowing Quotes #Air Quotes #Language Quotes

“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
“If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.”

Source : "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.
“I watch a lot of TV. I love nothing more than having a good TV show on DVD, to just plow through.”
“Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.”
“Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down.”
“I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott (2015). “Flatland”, p.15, Xist Publishing
“Wisdom comes with winters”

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