"Women want love to be a novel, men a short story."

-- Daphne du Maurier

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“Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.”
“I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.”

Source : Gerald Priestland (1993). “My pilgrim way: late writings”, Burns & Oates
“You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.”
“Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.”
“A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.”
“Let me know myself; let others guess at me.”

Source : Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.75
“Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to divine stirrings. No, we are then also being simply unfaithful to the surrounding reality. The one who purges gloom has given occasions and reasons, in the midst of life's sadness, to be joyful.”
“I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.”

Source : Andrew Johnson's Inaugural Address, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1865.

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