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Josephine Hart quotes

Irish Writer March 1, 1942 – June 2, 2011

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They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter. Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart quote: "Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love."
Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love. Josephine Hart
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature Josephine Hart
I always recognize the foces that will shape my life. I let them do their work. Sometimes they tear through my life like a hurricane. Sometimes they simply shift the ground under me, so that I stand on different earth, and something or someone has been swallowed up. I steady myself, in the earthquate. I lie down, and let the hurricane pass over me. I never fight. Afterwards I look around me, and I say, 'Ah, so this at least is left for me. And that dear person has also survived.' I... Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart quote: "Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by..."
Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since Josephine Hart
When we mourn those who die young? those who have been robbed of time? we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasure we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives. We believe that the untried soul, trapped in its young prison, might have flown free and known the joy that we still seek. Josephine Hart
There was a full moon in the starless sky. I thought how rarely I had noticed such things. Some deep failure of the soul perhaps. An inherited emptiness. A nothingness passed from generation to generation. A flaw in the psyche, discovered only by those who suffer by it. Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart quote: "The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to..."
The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart quote: "We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the..."
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart quote: "Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit..."
Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home. Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart quote: "For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight..."
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart quote: "We learn from tragedy. Slowly."
We learn from tragedy. Slowly. Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart quote: "There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we..."
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. Josephine Hart
Josephine Hart quote: "Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive."
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. Josephine Hart

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