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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#beautiful #beauty #cruel #disappointment #everlasting

Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin. ↗

— Victor Kiam

#writing #nature

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals #food #hunting

What everyone agreed was not very nice, was the way Clémence had carried on. Obviously, she wasn't the kind of girl you'd ask again: she'd ended up showing off everything she'd got, and she'd puked all down one of the muslin curtains and completely ruined it. At least the men did go into the street to do it; Lorilleux and Poisson, when they felt queer, managed to dash as far as the pork-butcher's shop. Breeding always tells. ↗

— Émile Zola

#french-people #l-assommoir #puking #vomiting #men

The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this ↗

— Seth Tucker

#fighting #guns #monsters #werewolves #men

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false ↗

— Gerhard Richter

#painting #art

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fathers #single-parenting #love

A worthy quote makes you think A good quote states more than the obvious An excellent quote removes doubt A great quote teaches you something A genius quote changes your mind. ↗

— T. Crossley

#writing #change

I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#writing #motivational

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. ↗

— James Oppenheim

#determination #happiness #motivation #motivational