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The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas...

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

Quote by Louis Aragon about genius

It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell...

It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories, and that my books are for any child between 80 and 8 years.

Quote by Michael Ende about books, children

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all...

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Quote by Pierre Auguste Renoir about painting, magic

Women are passionate about Mathematics. They are dividing their age in two, doubling the price of clothes and always add five years to age of best friend.

Quote by Marcel Achard about woman, mathematics, age, olderness, clothes

As she frequently remarked when she made any such...

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

Quote by Charles Dickens about woman, mistake

If yesterday we were dividing the time into days and years, today, we divide it into minutes and hours, in order to leave for tomorrow only the seconds.

Quote by Marius Torok about time, day, order

In order to figure out how much your life values, how you have managed to capitalize it, think about tomorrow could be the last day. But not the last day of your life - because then you could find any comfort: you have written something, you help...

Quote by Mircea Eliade about life, contentment, history, day, death, nation, earth, help, order, country

“You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid…. You refuse...

Quote by Martin Luther King Jr. about fight, contentment, old, olderness, principle, chance, home, house, death, spirit

His large, rough hands, show years of hardwork but his...

His large, rough hands, show years of hardwork but his heart is warm and gentle.

Quote by Eleanor R. Hampton about sensibility, heart

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet...

Quote by Francis McCourt about childhood, saints, poverty, miracle, mother, happiness, fire, fire brigade, nothing, things

It took me years of explorations for discovering what I...

It took me years of explorations for discovering what I call my method of digging, which allows me to tell fragmentary past when I needed it.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature, past

Should I look into the thought`s depth – a river which...

Should I look into the thought`s depth – a river which lightens Undeath – spend my years, and I have your face like the seaside of the wheat ears: an icon that it steals my everything time!

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about eternity

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