Felipe González

@Reader1994, member from July 21, 2022

Academic.
Literature.
Books.
Movies.

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“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

Source: Romeo and Juliet

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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

Source: The Tempest

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“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

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“Speak low, if you speak love.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
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“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: The Duchess of Padua

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“Pultes Scotorum.”

John Scotus Eriugena (810–877) Irish theologian

Irish porridge.

Verdict of the Fourth Council of Valence, 855, on his De Divina Praedestinatione, cited from Ferdinand Christian Baur Die christliche Kirche des Mittelalters in den Haupmomenten ihrer Entwicklung (Tübingen: Fues, 1861) p. 56; translation from Andrew Gibson James Joyce (London: Reaktion, 2006) p. 62.
Criticism

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“I wish I had no heart, it aches so…”

Source: Little Women

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“I shall spend every moment loving. One who loves does not notice her trials; or perhaps more accurately, she is able to love them.
Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.”

Bernadette Soubirous (1844–1879) French saint

1873. Quoted in A Holy Life: St. Bernadette of Lourdes (2005) by Patricia McEachern, [//books.google.com/books?id=ESX7DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT18 ch. 2].

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“I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8 : How I Conquered Worry,

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