Sofia Rotaru (1947) Ukrainain soviet and Ukrainian musician, singer, songwriter, actress, author of Moldavian origin
“I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire.”
Letter written the night before his duel with Aaron Burr (10 July 1804)
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Kancha Ilaiah (1952) Indian scholar, activist and writer
Quoted in at The Times Of India (15 February 2013) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/interviews/Kancha-Ilaiah-Even-if-10-dalit-children-got-English-education-India-would-change/articleshow/18503625.cms.
“God did not give me my life to throw away.”
Charlotte Brontë book Jane Eyre
Source: Jane Eyre (1847), Ch. 35
“I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….”
Henry Clay (1777–1852) American politician from Kentucky
Speech on the Line of the Perdido, Senate (25 December 1810).
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Letter to Frances Stevenson (22 January 1929), quoted in My Darling Pussy: The Letters of Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson, 1913–41, ed. A. J. P. Taylor (1975), p. 114
Leader of the Liberal Party
“Fire is the first and final mask of my God.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: "Fire is the first and final mask of my God. We dance and weep between two enormous pyres."
Our thoughts and our bodies flash and glitter with reflected light. Between the two pyres I stand serenely, my brain unshaken amid the vertigo, and I say:
"Time is most short and space most narrow between these two pyres, the rhythm of this life is most sluggish, and I have no time, nor a place to dance in. I cannot wait."
Then all at once the rhythm of the earth becomes a vertigo, time disappears, the moment whirls, becomes eternity, and every point in space — insect or star or idea — turns into dance.
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter to Cassandra (1801-01-08) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“I am an abolitionist, without reservation; I am a citizen; I believe I have done my duty.”
Luís Gama (1830–1882) Brazilian lawyer, poet, abolitionist and journalist
A Província de São Paulo, “Questão forense”, October 14, 1880. Source: Defendeu escravizados: O inestimável legado do jornalista Luiz Gama https://aventurasnahistoria.uol.com.br/noticias/reportagem/defendeu-escravizados-o-inestimavel-legado-do-jornalista-luiz-gama-.phtml.
“I am a rocket
On fire.
Look at me go, with my tail on fire…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)