#vent

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#adventure #art #mind #work

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#deed #degrades #demolish #ego #eventually

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. ↗