"What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone."

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Source : Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

Erich Segal

#Stones Quotes #Way Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.”
“To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.”
“Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.”
“Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.”
“Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.”
“No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves ...”
“I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.”
“Don't let weeds grow around your dreams.”

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