"The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr â€” smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile."

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Source : Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.152, 1st World Publishing

Henri Barbusse

#Tired Quotes #Heart Quotes #Depth Quotes

“I have heard unsavory rumors about you and the umbrella-maker's daughter”
“A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.”
“Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.”

Source : Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.137, Macmillan
“What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.”
“I think the Thompsons had got a sort of fatal illness about three albums ago and it just took this long to find out that enough was enough. And we became increasingly frustrated by... I don't know, we want to get into the areas that being a pop group never allowed you to get into.”
“One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.”
“Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.”

Source : Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”
“I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.”

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