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No great inner event befalls those who summon it not. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#event #great #inner #summon #those

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#asks #because #conceal #does #either

They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed. ↗

— Bill Maher

#any #banning #bed #cigarette #cigarette smoking

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#big problems #country #facing #passing #problems

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#fortunately #idle #let us #remains #something

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#immigrant #land #newcomers #our #part

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#could #desire #desires #explode #fortress

Pale as a candle flame in the dusk, tallow-pale, he stalked along, holding her hand, and Louie looked up and beyond him at the enfeebled stars. Thus, for many years, she had seen her father's head, a ghostly earth flame against the heavens, from her little height. Sam looked down on the moon of her face; the dayshine was enough still to light the eyeballs swimming up to him. ↗

— Christina Stead

#beauty

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#circle #how #inner #like #looks

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#assisting #certain #come #could #devil