"...that heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love."

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Source : Ari Berk (2012). “Death Watch”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

Ari Berk

#Heart Quotes #People Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.”
“Prose talks and poetry sings.”
“In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!”

Source : Address to the Annual Dinner of the Canadian Press, Toronto, April 18, 1956.
“It is the duty of a woman to be obedient to her husband, and unless she is, I would not give a damn for all her queenly right and authority; nor for her either, if she will quarrel, and lie about the work of God and the principle of plurality.”
“Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.”
“In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?”
“I had one idea that never changed in my mindâ€”that you should use your wealth to help people.”

Source : "The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune". Book by Conor O'Clery, September 23, 2007.
“I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side.”

Source : 'Chambers's Journal' 2 February 1884.

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