"He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear of death... Then something incomprehensible and frightening happened. ... He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on us all. ... The next moment, after a final effort, the spirit wrenched itself free of the flesh."

-- Svetlana Alliluyeva

#War Quotes #Eye Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.”

Source : Jim Carroll (1993). “Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems of Jim Carroll”, Penguin Group USA
“Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.”

Source : David Walker (1965). “David Walker's Appeal: In Four Articles, Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America”
“I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.”

Source : Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)
“I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”
“In the black community when we think of a couselor or sitting down with a therapist there is that taboo attached to people of being psychotic and crazy. Really it's not it's just sitting down having a conversation.”
“I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.”

Source : "Still got it: ‘Heroin chic’ icon Kate Moss turns 40" by Anne Laure Mondesert, www.dailystar.com.lb. January 15, 2014.
“To say or imply that the foundation exists only on the sufferance of government is to reason from the untenable notion that the citizen and all his institutions are creatures of the state, not the other way around.”
“I don't represent a group, a trend or a political party, but rather everyone.”

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