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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#any #country #dead #more #other

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#arms #attend #away #flowering #hold

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#consciousness #dealing #further #lesbian #lives

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#am #better #dues #explore #full

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#full #life #mistakes #part #pays

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#child #compared #except #facts #know

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#full #life #mistakes #part #pays

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#assembled #associated #because #church #dear

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#confronted #contemporaries #desert #go #him