#iv

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now? ↗

— Ernst Toller

#ask #could #dead #death #earthly

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#develop #disappears #furnished #furniture #goal

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#destroy #does #faith #force #himself

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#defend #go #itself #life #living

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works. ↗

— Kiana Tom

#always #be prepared #career #cuts #hard

A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#closet #express #free #general #heard

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness. ↗

— Billy Graham

#days #during #every #forgiveness #high

Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#called #fragrance #i #much #natalie

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#creative works #explored #interesting #itself #politics

As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move. ↗

— Goh Chok Tong

#balance #basis #children #evolve #freedom