"As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad."

-- Victor Hugo

#Twilight Quotes #Joy Quotes #Being Sad Quotes

“If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music.”
“Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.”
“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
“My top beauty tip is to drink lots of water. It might sound lame, but it works.”
“I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
“A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.”

Source : "Failure and Rescue" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 2012.
“There's not a word in the Quran or the Hadith that requires that women cover their faces. To the contrary, the only requirement is that they uncover their faces when they're doing the haj.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.”

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