"But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all."

-- Nikolai Gogol

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“Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.”
“I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.”
“I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.”
“It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.”
“Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.”
“Don't hold on to religion and miss the joy of knowing Jesus.”
“Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.”

Source : Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.9, Ravenio Books
“Writing is very different to having your photo taken. You are exposing yourself more, not physically but emotionally.”

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