".. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me."

-- Sarah Waters

#Thinking Quotes #Mad Quotes #Longing Quotes

“For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.”
“I don't have a Wikiquotes page.”
“And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.”

Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When I moved to New York a year and a half ago, I feel like I really was able to access my sense of humor and personality through my work for maybe the first time. The city has a really nurturing, positive kind of reinforcement...for young artists. Nothing is considered weird. Nothing is frowned upon. It's sort of a free-for-all in terms of experimentation, and I think that's a really great environment for someone who wants to work in a multimedia modality.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then”
“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.”
“Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.”
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”

Source : Jane Goodall (1994). “With Love: Ten Heartwarming Stories of Chimpanzees in the Wild”, Scholastic Incorporated

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