"The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently."

-- Marthe Bibesco

#Art Quotes #Soul Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.”

Source : Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.
“Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.”
“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”

Source : Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
“But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.”
“We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.”
“In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.131, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.”
“It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.”

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