"When the State withers, humanity flowers."

-- Anthony Burgess

#Flower Quotes #Humanity Quotes #States Quotes

“The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.14
“I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, itâ€™s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.”
“If you take a walk around Ouagadougou and make a list of the mansions you see, you will note that they belong to just a minority. How many of you who have been assigned to Ouagadougou from the farthest corners of the country have had to move every night because you've been thrown out of the house you have rented? To those who have acquired houses and land through corruption we say: start to tremble. If you have stolen, tremble, because we will come after you”

Source : Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr
“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”
“Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.”
“I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.”
“Of all things, I liked books best.”
“The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.”

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