"Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long conversation, a parenthetical remark made in order to assure each other of a deeply felt agreement, a mutual offer of companionship, which is so much more rare than sexual passion or even love."

-- Nicole Krauss

#Passion Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Agreement Quotes

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
“Think about the change that occurred in the 1500m at Christchurch. The 1500m was usually a slow race and then a sprint [at the finish]. But in 1974 I changed that from the beginning to the end. And not many people have thought about that.”
“At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.”
“I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'”
“A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.”

Source : F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Xist Publishing
“Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.”
“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”
“It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.”

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