"Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints"

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Edith Sitwell

#Soul Quotes #Hints Quotes #Half Quotes

“To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.”
“Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.49, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Everything I do is to support my passion, and that is the rescuing of animals!”
“Itâ€™s one thing to see yourself going across the tickerâ€¦But to take someone else down, thatâ€™s another. I really canâ€™t even explain that pain.”
“I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.”
“Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet's green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.”
“Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.”

Source : Letter to V. A. Krylov, 1867.
“I did apply to get a job, many times, but no one ever hired me. I think my hyperactive nature didn't score me any points, and I remember when I went for interviews, I would ask all the questions - this probably confused the people who were hiring.”

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