J.S.B. Morse · 423 pages
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“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“It's a certain tragedy when agony and resentment are all you have left connecting you to someone you once loved.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“If you spend enough time with someone who doubts you, you can't help but believe them.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“You will never find the perfect person but you might be lucky enough to find someone who wants to be.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“Some people are like singularities. Get close enough and you will be uncontrollably consumed in an infinite attraction and will cease to exist apart from them.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“That’s life. It’s a series of knock-down, drag-out fights with yourself and others that will leave you lying on the ground bruised and bloody and drooling all over your shag carpeting. But all that doesn’t define you, your reaction to it does. Your environment doesn’t make you who you are, your choices — your beliefs, do.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“Change is inevitable. If you don’t seek it out, it will seek you out.”
― J.S.B. Morse, quote from Now and at the Hour of Our Death
J.S.B. Morse
Born place: Indianapolis, The United States
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“Oh, upon my word and honour,” cried Mr. Toots, whose tender heart was moved by the Captain’s unexpected distress, “this is a most wretched sort of affair this world is! Somebody’s always dying, or going and doing something uncomfortable in it. I’m sure I never should have looked forward so much, to coming into my property, if I had known this. I never saw such a world. It’s a great deal worse than Blimber’s.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from Dombey and Son
“You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.”
― Elias Canetti, quote from Auto-da-Fé
“Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.
If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.
But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”
― Barack Obama, quote from Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
“... je t'emmènerais dans une contrée resplendissante et prospère, au foyer d'une famille aristocratique des lettrés, fastueux domaine où abondent les fleurs et les saules, terroir de la douceur, de richesse et d'honneurs, pour t'installer dans la joie et en toute sécurité.
Cao Xueqin, "Le Rêve dans le pavillon rouge", trad, fr. par Li Tche-Houa, J. Alézaïs, révision par A. D'Hormon, Paris, Gallimard, "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade", 1981, vol. 1, p. 8.”
― Cao Xueqin, quote from The Dream of the Red Chamber
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