"Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process."

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Yusef Komunyakaa

#Years Quotes #Peaceful Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.”
“Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.”
“The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, sitting back on his haunches and contemplating Laurence with great indignation.”

Source : Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.390, Del Rey
“Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.”
“I always wanted to do something that revolves around the darker side of sex, the pressure of it.”
“Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night”
“Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.”
“The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again”

Source : Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.184, Macmillan

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