“I love her and that's the beginning of everything…”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Variant: I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.
Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
Hermann Hesse book Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
“Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one!”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
“The poetry of earth is never dead.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
" Sonnet. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket http://www.bartleby.com/126/28.html" <br class="br">Poems (1817)
“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873) <br class="br">Variant: I believe I am in Hell, and so I am there.
“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
“People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Variant: Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
“We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Often attributed to Stalin and Marx, according to the book, They Never Said It (1989), p. 64, the phrase derives from a rumour that Lenin said this to one of his close associates, Grigori Zinoviev, not long after a meeting of the Politburo in the early 1920s, but there is no evidence that he ever did. It has also been believed that Lenin may have expressed that the profit motive cannot be undone in that "If we were to hang the last capitalist, another would suddenly appear to sell us the rope". Experts on the Soviet Union reject the rope quote as spurious. However, it is established that Lenin did remark on the same underlying theme (even if not in reference to rope), namely, that capitalists in their addiction to high profits could not help themselves from selling things to a socialist state, even if it was against their own long-term interests by strengthening an enemy; Edvard Radzinsky covers it in his discussion of Lenin's comments on the "deaf-mutes" in Radzinsky's biography of Stalin.
Misattributed
“I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.”
Stephen King book Christine
Source: Christine
“People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they've been strong for too long.”
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
“Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.”
Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II
Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Niewolnik marzy o wolności, człowiek wolny o bogactwie, bogacz o władzy, a władca o wolności.
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”
Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician
“The noblest art is that of making others happy”
P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman
“The sadness will last forever.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890 http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm <br class="br">Some of the last words Vincent said to Theo, while dying <br class="br">1890s
“When we say that “the world has ended,” remember—it is usually a lie. The planet is just fine.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Stone Sky
Prologue “me, when I was I” (p. 2)
The Stone Sky (2017)
“No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Red Symons (1949) Australian broadcaster and musician
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