"Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk."

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Source : "Science in Russian Culture: A History to 1860". Book by Alexander Vucinich, June 1963.

Leonhard Euler

#Country Quotes #People Quotes

“Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one tortured nerve, or even a full-scale anxiety attack. I do not subscribe to this point of view 100 percent, but I understand it, have lived it. Thus the shriek, the caterwaul, the chainsaw gnarlgnashing, the yowl and the whizz that decapitates may be reheard by the adventurous or emotionally damaged as mellifluous bursts of unarguable affirmation.”
“The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.”
“All I want is your loving, feel the earth move when we kiss. I don't need a big ol' diamond, but I'll take it baby if you insist.”
“I'm having too good of a time.”
“A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.”
“No family is sane, is it?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.”
“People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight--at least as they normally experienced them....Some people lost their individuality in the water, but Riley always felt most herself. Water was supposed to symbolize renewal, she knew, but when Riley swam, pared down, alone, and unreachable--she felt a deeper sense of who she already was.”

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