"Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened."

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Marguerite Duras

#Way Quotes #Losing Quotes

“I begged my mom to let me start skating.”
“How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.”
“Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.”
“Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.”
“Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.”
“It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.”
“The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.”

Source : Walter Kaufmann (1977). “The Future of the Humanities”, p.23, Transaction Publishers
“You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it. This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by.”

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