"Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of."

-- Ivan KlÃma

“The sergeant is the Army.”
“Now that I am in my forties, she [my mother] tells me I'm beautiful; now that I am in my forties, she sends me presents and we have the long, personal and even remarkably honest phone calls I always wanted so intensely I forbade myself to imagine them. How strange. Perhaps Shaw was correct and if we lived to be several hundred years old, we would finally work it all out. I am deeply grateful. With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.”
“It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as though we knew a thousand reasons. I pray God to hold you quiet and patient and uncomplaining, and help you bear the weight of this seemingly unintelligible sorrow. I hope you will remember that this is the only world in which a Christian can suffer, and suffer patiently and meekly. We cannot suffer by and by. God helps us to glorify Him now, when we can.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
“Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine”
“I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.”
“Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.”
“I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!”

Source : "Fictional character: Rick". "The Young Ones" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1982–1984.
“Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.”

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