"Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Struggle Quotes #Men Quotes #Air Quotes

“An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.”
“Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... before her consciousness slipped from her grasp and she drifted away. But she would come back to him. One way or the other, she would not leave her twin ever again.”
“Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.”

Source : " Songs and freedom in West Papua" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”

Source : Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE
“It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.”
“I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.”
“Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.”
“Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.”

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