"Iâ€™ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, itâ€™s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing."

-- Etta James

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“Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
“The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.”
“Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame ...”

Source : "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.
“Even the greatest bringers of justice will only find salvation in surrneder”
“I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.”
“That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men.”
“Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.”
“i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?”

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