"There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul."

-- Stephane Mallarme

#Lying Quotes #Fall Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“There are few things more disconcerting than realizing the first date you thought went so well was in fact a dud.”
“The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.”
“Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think VelÃ¡squez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2013). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.432, Penguin UK
“I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.”
“That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.”
“And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.”
“I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.”
“I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.”

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