"Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim."

-- Jules Renard

#Women Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Feminine Quotes

“It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.”
“Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.”
“I've always been monogamous - [within it] I've been in love with people, but very platonically. For me, monogamous love is about learning how to be able to trust someone completely; so you need to be able to think you can trust them. But that doesn't mean you can't have extraordinary feelings for other people and not feel guilty about them, but not necessarily go and wreck marriages and consummate, and you don't have to do all that.”

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“If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.”
“There are Millions of people in this world. Then why are you born? The reason is, Allah is expecting something from you, which is not possible by Millions.”
“Now I've a hope that will surely endure after the passing of time. I have a future in heaven for sure; there in those mansions sublime. And it's because of that wonderful day when at the cross I believed. Riches eternal and blessings supernal from His precious hand I received”
“I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself”
“Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.”

Source : Frank O'Connor (1944). “Crab Apple Jelly: Stories and Tales”

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