"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed."

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Source : Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

Charlotte Bronte

#Broken Heart Quotes #Dream Quotes #Silence Quotes

“At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.”
“Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.”
“In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me”
“The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.”
“Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1989). “Scientific and Miscellaneous Papers”
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
“I am Massimo Bottura. I close my eyes and I want to understand where I am, cooking is about emotion, it's about culture, it's about love, it's about memory.”
“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”

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