"Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity."

-- Michel Houellebecq

#Intensity Quotes

“I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.”

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“When the bottom falls out and disappointments come, you will learn what you believe, what you love, and what you treasure.”
“If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. And by chance there happen to be such women, for, as I touched on before, just as women have more delicate bodies than men, weaker and less able to perform many tasks, so do they have minds that are freer and sharper whenever they apply themselves.”

Source : "The Book of the City of Ladies". Book by Christine de Pizan, transl. by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Part I, ch. 27, p. 63, 1983.
“Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.”
“Science brings men nearer to God.”
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”
“There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isnâ€™t all that perfect.”
“It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick”

Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.411, Rowman & Littlefield

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