"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."

-- Claude Levi-Strauss

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“For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.”
“The Fun Girl video which was directed by Bijoux Altamarino really came out of her vision. I feel she understood the mystery, danger and power of the song and It really came through in the end.”
“Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.”
“Donâ€™t ever leave me again,â€ I said in a tiny voice. I wonâ€™t,â€ he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. â€œI wonâ€™t. Not ever.â€ And just like that, a cold shard of ice that had been inside my chest ever since weâ€™d split up-well, it just disappeared. I felt myself relax for the first time in I donâ€™t known how long. The wind was chilly, but the sun was bright, and my whole flock was together. Fang and I were together. Excuse me? Iâ€™m alive too.â€ Iggyâ€™s plaintive voice made me pull back.”
“I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.”
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”

Source : Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James”, p.954, e-artnow
“Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.”

Source : Josephine Tey (1954). “Three by Tey”
“Thatâ€™s right, you nasty little vixen, bite me harder." Ian urged.”

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