"Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,-\-\feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!"

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Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (2008). “Ramona”, p.323, Broadview Press

Helen Hunt Jackson

#Sky Quotes #Feet Quotes #Long Quotes

“Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.”

Source : Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.”

Source : Talk at Arse Elektronika, 2010.
“We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?”
“Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing”
“It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.”

Source : Janet Frame, Carole Ferrier (1995). “The Janet Frame reader”, Womens Pr Ltd
“Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.”
“Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.”
“Photographing a cake can be art.”

Source : "Photographer Irving Penn dies, aged 92" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2009.

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