#if

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #curtain #first #had #i

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives. ↗

— Robert Caro

#because #biography #democracy #examine #famous

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. ↗

— Robert Caro

#enjoy #i #just #life #my life

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#civilization #difficult #into #marry #very

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People people have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life

Why would he do that? I thought--he said--he loved me." "As if I needed a reason to hate him more," Asher muttered, avoiding my gaze. ↗

— Jocelyn Davies

#a-fractured-light #asher #devin #skye #beauty

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state. ↗

— John le Carre

#big difference #difference #state #totalitarian #totalitarian state

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it. ↗

— Ralph Stanley

#doing #done #hope #i #keep

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#beastly #being #believer #creature #definitely

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. ↗

— Emily Carr

#disorder #magnificence #ordered #perfectly