Alix

“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” -Jonathan Swift”
― Angela Roquet, Graveyard Shift

“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Moon and Sixpence

“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Moon and Sixpence

“We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.” “War springs from unseen and generally insignificant causes.”
― Liz Rosenberg, The Moonlight Palace