"We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world."

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Georges Bataille

#Kids Quotes #Sky Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.”
“But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce...”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.426, Penguin
“Will the future bring your wisdom to me? Or will darkness rule the kingdom for all eternity? You will live in my heartâ€¦ I will still remember even though we are apart. I will feel you there for me As I walk the road of life You help me fight for what is right I will honour thy name”
“Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.”
“The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge, but all economies know that the only sensible long term way of developing is to do it on a sustainable basis.”
“For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.”
“Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.”
“When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.”

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