Ella Leya quotes
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“Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.”
-- Ella LeyaSource : Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.135, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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“That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.”
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“Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.”
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“A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.”
-- Ella LeyaSource : Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.168, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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“Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.”
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“My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance.”
-- Ella LeyaSource : Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.24, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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“The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment.”
-- Ella LeyaSource : Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.131, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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“The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.”
-- Ella LeyaSource : Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.80, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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“That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.”
-- Ella LeyaSource : Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.113, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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“I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs”
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“No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.”
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Source : "Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir". Book by Hélène Claparède-Spir, p. 59, 1937.
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