"And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows."

-- Thomas Mann

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“So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.”
“Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.”
“much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.”

Source : Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”
“The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between improbable and impossible.”
“I don't have television so I don't watch TV.”

Source : "Meet The Vampire Diaries Actor Paul Wesley". www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.
“There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down”

Source : René Girard, Clifford Geertz, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Stanford University. Committee on Modern Thought and Literature (1973*). “Myth and ritual in Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream”
“When you believe in yourself and you know that you can do it then your body just follows suit.”
“I think people want to feel stuff right now.”

Source : Source: www.refinery29.com

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