"But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts."

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Marguerite Yourcenar

#Men Quotes #Ghost Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“You had to work tremendously hard. You had to have that commitment to training, you had to have that innate ability. It's similar in my profession as well. You can have the ability, but without the work, passion and the commitment, you won't really get there.”
“I would love to fight whoever is the best. I want to test myself on how much I can achieve.”
“We always have a good time playing, and I'm glad it shows.”
“As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.”

Source : William Harvey, Robert Willis (1847). “The Works of William Harvey ...”, p.156
“And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I grew up in Toronto during Sloan's heyday, so like I was like "Oh my god!" And so that was pretty cool.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.”
“If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.”
“Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.”

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