"She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom."

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Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.48

Kate Chopin

#Wine Quotes #Voice Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.”

Source : William Shenstone (1764). “The Works, in Verse and Prose”, p.254
“It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.”
“I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.”
“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (1979). “The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics”, p.9, Beacon Press
“I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' â€¦ The twenty-five percent is for error.”
“It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.”
“Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.”

Source : Isaac Thomas HECKER (1857). “Aspirations of nature”, p.24
“It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.”

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