"I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom."

-- James Joyce

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“Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that everything I've ever learned about writing lyrical fiction has been informed by three decades of writing in lines and stanzas. For me the real drama of fiction is almost always the drama of the language.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”

Source : Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.10, Harper Collins
“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”
“I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.”
“You and I live to manifest the Glory of God.”
“This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.”
“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.”

Source : Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1959). “Poetry, 1917-1959”
“The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative Â– destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. We all need each other. This type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to the maturity of individual and group functioning.”

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