"The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears."

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Source : Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”

Carmen Laforet

#Stupid Quotes #Secret Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!”
“Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never done Wi' glittering dance and reeling in the sun And green wood fly and blossom haunting bee Are never weary of their melody Round field hedge now flowers in full glory twine Large bindweed bells wild hop and streakd woodbine That lift athirst their slender throated flowers Agape for dew falls and for honey showers These round each bush in sweet disorder run And spread their wild hues to the sultry sun.”

Source : John Clare, Eric Robinson, David Powell (2004). “Major Works”, p.135, Oxford University Press, USA
“There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.”
“It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.”
“Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.”
“A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.”
“So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.”
“I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.”

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