"But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others."

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Source : Ilya Kaminsky (2014). “Dancing in Odessa”, p.9, Arc Publications

Ilya Kaminsky

#Men Quotes #Silence Quotes #Secret Quotes

“A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.”
“My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.”
“It is very important that you should choose the person you will marry and stay with that person. There are many people now who believe in serial love, loving one person after another. I donâ€™t think that is good for our mental health. I think we should get it over with. Love is like measles, you know. You only get it once in your lifetime and you are immune forever. I am very happy to say that is what happened to me. I am completely immune to any temptation. All men who have passed my life after I got married might as well have been sticks of furniture.”
“My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.”
“The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.”
“Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!”
“Our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situation, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome. We don't need to become involved in the details-in fact, trying too hard may backfire. Let the non-local intelligence synchronize the actions of the universe to fulfill your intentions for you.”
“Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something has happened to the gene pool.”

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