"Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled."

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Source : George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8194, Library of Alexandria

George Meredith

#Spring Quotes #Valleys Quotes #Forget Quotes

“Well, thatâ€™s not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades.”
“I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.”
“Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.”
“It's never too late to fix things with people you love, Massie. Kendra said. That's true. William agreed.”
“Go is most fun I've had with a compiled PL since I've discovered Turbo Pascal as a kid.”
“When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.”
“The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.”

Source : Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.248, Simon and Schuster
“The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, ... Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, CÃ©sar Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. ... The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.”

Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 159, 1927.

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