Helen Waddell quotes
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“It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.”
-- Helen WaddellSource : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
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“But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?”
-- Helen WaddellSource : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
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“for ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.”
-- Helen WaddellSource : Helen Waddell (2000). “The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages”, p.24, Courier Corporation
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“Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.”
-- Helen WaddellSource : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
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“Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.”
-- Helen WaddellSource : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
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“Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.”
-- Helen WaddellSource : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
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“... was there no one over thirty-five who had not some secret agony, some white-faced fear? Half one's life one walked carelessly, certain that some day one would have one's heart's desire: and for the rest of it, one either goes empty, or walks carrying a full cup, afraid of every step.”
-- Helen WaddellSource : Helen Waddell (2013). “Peter Abelard”, p.88, Read Books Ltd
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54
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Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com
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Source : "Saudi Prince Urges Ground Zero Mosque Be Moved" by Cindy E. Rodriguez, abcnews.go.com. October 28, 2010.
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