"Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper."

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Source : "Man of Fetters" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. December 8, 2008.

Adam Gopnik

#Light Quotes #Paper Quotes

“We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged.”
“You are pure flame. I touch you and I ignite. I kiss you and I burn to have more. You consume meâ€¦ like no other woman before you, and, I am certain, like no other ever could again.”
“A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.”
“The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.”

Source : Speech in the Convention Nationale (16 January 1793), Archives Parliamentaires de 1787 à 1860, vol. 57, p. 368, 1900.
“The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war..”
“Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.”

Source : Harriet Martineau (2004). “Harriet Martineau: Studies of America, 1831-1868”
“In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.”
“(The bill) is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.”

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