"It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse."

-- Kevin Brooks

#Dark Quotes #Disease Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.”
“I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.”
“We want to have good ties with the Iranians, but if they want good ties with us, then I tell them: Don't keep attacking us as you have done for the last years.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.”
“A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.”
“As many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in some other way - most often by someone she knows, including by her husband or another male family member.”
“The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.53, BoD – Books on Demand
“A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.”

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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