"If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning."

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Source : Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.214, Univ of California Press

Harvey Milk

#Being Yourself Quotes #Gay Quotes #Expression Quotes

“It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.”
“The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (1996). “The Underground Man”, Vintage
“When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.”
“Just heard who made who by ac/dc and asked a ry what movie? He had no idea. Disappointed. He will be doing my laundry today.”
“The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.”
“I don't send messages, I'm not a fax machine”
“No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.”

Source : "Final Fantasy X". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 2001.
“Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.”

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