“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.” YearsFirstsHumansStillsTwoFactsDiesBornAirCreaturesEternalEnglandTwentiesBritainIrelandSeventiesForeignersBeing IrishIreland And The Irish Author:George Bernard Shaw
“How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.” IfsKnowsMenStillsAbleDarkSkinsSevenShellsSeventiesHaresSlough Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
“It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.” KnowsFeelsShouldStillsPoliticalDifficultNaturalFiveMiddleBabyProfessionSeventiesStatesmenMiddle Aged Book:The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell Source: The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell
“It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.” WorldStillsTwoMightLeftWishVictoryTwentiesSevenGladSeventies Author:Lucy Stone