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It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.
I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
The story of my holiday decorating is if Ralph Lauren was trapped in a 1950s Woolworth, this is what it would look like.
She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.
God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!
Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!
Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds.
If there are only you and the music in the room, it means that there are two persons in the room! Music is a live being!
We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate.
Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.
Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!
Forgetting is a blessing; remembering is a blessing! We are lucky that we can forget; we are lucky that we can remember!
However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.
Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!
Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains!
Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.
The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!
The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglier your face becomes!
There are no 'perfect liars' in the world; there are only 'perfect believers' who believe in even the most obvious lies!
Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!
We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!
When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the future.
Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!
There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!
Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.
Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.
I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.
Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.
All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!
Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.
Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!
Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.
For cyclone-proof energy infrastructure, we would definitely explore all possibilities, including international support.
We prefer to be isolated in Odisha. That is a policy of equidistance, and going it alone has served us well in the past.
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.