"There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence."

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Source : Donald Justice (2009). “New And Selected Poems”, p.38, Knopf

Donald Justice

#Journey Quotes #Land Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations”
“Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.”
“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.”

Source : Elisabeth Tova Bailey (2010). “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating”, p.132, Algonquin Books
“We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.”

Source : Mabel Louise Robinson (1922). “Writing for Young People”
“I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.”

Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt
“A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.”

Source : "A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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