“The fear of separation is all that unites.”
El temor de separación es todo lo que une.
Voces (1943)
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Antonio Porchia276
Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes
“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
La mort rapproche autant qu’elle sépare, elle fait taire les passions mesquines.
Part II, ch. LVII
Letters of Two Brides (1841-1842)
Henry Clay (1777–1852) American politician from Kentucky
Speech on the Emancipation of South America], House of Representatives (24 March 1818); The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, vol. I (1857), ed. Daniel Mallory
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 64
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon V : The Self-Communication of God
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.
“The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Widely attributed to Shaw begin31 (187ning in the 1940s, esp. after appearing in the November 1942 Reader’s Digest, the quotation is actually a variant of "Indeed, in many respects, she [Mrs. Otis] was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language" from Oscar Wilde's 1887 short story "The Canterville Ghost".
Misattributed
Variant: The English and the Americans are two peoples divided by a common language.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Of papyrus
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
