"Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure â€“ attractively packaged but inferior in content."

-- Alan Watts

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“As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.”
“I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.”
“You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.”

Source : Bernard Cornwell (1997). “The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur”, p.120, Macmillan
“Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1870). “A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected”, p.50
“After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me.... I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there.”
“His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely beautiful head. The head was that of the wildest of all wild creatures- a stallion born wild- and it was beautiful, savage, splendid. A stallion with a wonderful physical perfection that matched his savage, ruthless spirit.”

Source : Walter Farley, Steven Farley (2011). “The Young Black Stallion”, p.136, Yearling
“I hated the mirror and avoided it as much as I could. A glimpse would only remind me: I'll never be normal again.”

Source : "‘Still Lolo’: How I Learned To Appreciate True Beauty" by Lauren Scruggs, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2012.
“When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.”

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