"When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal."

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Source : "Fictional character: Marquise de Merteuil". "Dangerous Liaisons", www.imdb.com. 1988.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

#Women Quotes #Heart Quotes #Missing Quotes

“In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”
“The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.”
“Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.”
“When we give of ourselves, our time, and our money, we're also giving up control. As a control freak myself, I know that sounds scary, but I've learned that the momentary lack of control forces me to look at what I do have and truly count my blessings. I have clean drinking water. I have food on my table. I have a roof over my head and clothes on my back. Suddenly, my panic-stricken mindset is replaced with gratitude.”
“Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.”
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
“For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who lived in a caravan in Goldstream Park with a pack of dogs and a monkey and shunned the human race except to attend her own art openings? Only a genius could both paint and write my/her home.”

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