"His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Loneliness Quotes #Party Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.”
“Polemical debates happen all the time in France.”
“Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.”
“Spirit, faith, and positive energy are the core of human life, without them you lose your way. You live without Zest. You go through the motions but there's no passion”
“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”
“At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.”
“You need people who score goals. That's how you win games”
“A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train.”

Source : Lewis Nordan (1992). “Music of the Swamp”, Algonquin Books

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