#om

Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well." "And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?" I teased. Sam turned bright red. "That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#romance #sweet-talk #voyeurism #funny

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#everywhere #felt #garden #get #had

I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#art #beards #careers #change #could

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category. ↗

— Faye Wattleton

#commentaries #felt #fit #had #i

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests. ↗

— Albert Claude

#become #carry #conquests #forward #man

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#fire #hammer #happens #i #me

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#bohemia #cost #effort #here #huge

Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true. ↗

— Paul Kane

#because #come #does #dream #everything

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#had #i #knowledge #make #order

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. ↗

— Alan Watts

#badly #between #comparisons #constellations #into