"Joy always came after pain."

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Source : 1913 Les Alcools,'Le Pont Mirabeau'.

Guillaume Apollinaire

#Pain Quotes #Joy Quotes

“There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.”
“The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.”
“Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.”
“It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.”

Source : 'The Affinity'
“Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2001). “The Folk Keeper”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”
“Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten”

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