"Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right."

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Source : Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Jerusalem”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

Selma LagerlÃ¶f

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“If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.”
“Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.”
“Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.”

Source : "Lil B Talks Getting Sucker Punched, Gay Rumors, & Drake Envy". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 10, 2010.
“You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle, but I should never be tempted to do it; for I could not like him, if he were ever so handsome, and ever so charming, in other respects; I should hate himâ€”despise himâ€”pity himâ€”anything but love him.Â My affections not only ought to be founded on approbation, but they will and must be so: for, without approving, I cannot love.Â It is needless to say, I ought to be able to respect and honour the man I marry, as well as love him, for I cannot love him without.”
“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”
“But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.”

Source : Arthur Phillips (2009). “The Song Is You: A Novel”, p.42, Random House
“I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously...”
“Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.”

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