"Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhaleâ€” you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breathâ€” the night is done. You are light and morning."

-- Cesare Pavese

#Sweet Quotes #Morning Quotes #Stars Quotes

“All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and hence through the influence of the predominant use or permanent disuse of any organ; all these are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise, provided that the acquired modifications are common to both sexes, or at least to the individuals which produce the young.”
“I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.”
“Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent.”
“Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.”

Source : Calvin S. Hall (1979). “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”
“I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.”
“Writing is an antisocial act.”

Source : Martha Grimes (2004). “Foul Matter”, p.49, Penguin
“You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.”
“As a player and a coach, I've had plenty of great moments, but I've also experienced disappointments. The disappointments are not about self-doubt, but rather about change. I've always seen failures as a personal challenge. I say to myself: Now I have to find out if I have the right stuff.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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