Famous quotes containing the words defence, white and/or paper:
“To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defence against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering.... Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.”
—Cesare Pavese (19081950)
“What a lay me down this is
with two pink, two orange,
two green, two white goodnights.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Two heavy trestles, and a board
Where Satos gift, a changeless sword,
By pen and paper lies,
That it may moralise
My days out of their aimlessness.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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