"Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it."

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Source : Léon Bloy, Jeanne Molbech Bloy (1937). “Letters to His Fiancée”

Leon Bloy

#Doe Quotes #Weak Quotes #Source Quotes

“Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A Chesney Hawkes alarm clock!”
“Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.”
“I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.”
“In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.”

Source : Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”
“As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.”
“There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.5, Image Continuum Press
“For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.”
“Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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