"They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the "happy-forever" feeling at the end of never-ending fairy tales."

-- Vladimir Mayakovsky

#Dark Quotes #Light Quotes #Hair Quotes

“Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.”
“Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.”
“As long as you're worrying about losing what you got, you'll never be able to see that what's out there waiting for you is a hundred times better.”
“In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365
“Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.”

Source : "Spiritual vs. Material Fulfillment: Who Says You Can’t Have Both? (Part II)" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2011.
“Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.”

Source : William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.59, Vintage
“Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.”
“As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.”

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