“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
― Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
“Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.”
― The Book of Tea
― The Book of Tea
“Love happened. Love came to show you that you could be more than you could ever imagine, because love forced you out of the narrows of yourself and thrust you into a vastness that stretched from one end of time to the other. Nothing mattered except being in the presence of love, the greatest beauty of all.”
― Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire
― Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire
“Think globally, act locally.”
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“For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.”
― The Chronicles of Narnia
― The Chronicles of Narnia
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