"I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this."

-- Claude Monet

#Peace Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Worry Quotes

“Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (1997). “The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.225, Macmillan
“Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.”
“I don't concede that Guccifer is a Russian agent. Officials also said, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Just because the intelligence services say something, as we know from history, does not make it true.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.”
“We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.43, New Directions Publishing
“If only religious leaders could be trusted, then maybe there wouldn't be so many problems. They have perverted any truth that the Bible may have.”
“It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2012). “Shadow of Night: A Novel”, p.337, Penguin
“Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable”

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