"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Air Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“Jesus once caused a sick man to arise on the Sabbath and take up his bed, whereupon the pious of the land raised a great outcry. But Jesus answered with superior contempt that the Sabbath was there for the sake of man, not man for the sake of the Sabbath; consequently, man was also master over the Sabbath.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 229, 1930.
“It's exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I'm not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don't follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what's important to them.”
“That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.”
“In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.”
“I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon, which is only a hole surrounded by steel - can be based only on what one does not have; and that ultimately one can write only to fill a void or at the least to situate, in relation to the most lucid part of ourselves, the place where this incommensurable abyss yawns within us.”

Source : Michel Leiris, Richard Howard (1992). “Manhood: A Journey from Childhood Into the Fierce Order of Virility”, p.105, University of Chicago Press
“Today I'm a more solid, grounded person, positioned to encourage women. I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.”
“I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day”
“Buy a nickel bag, smoke a little lye, get high tonight, get high tonight.”

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