I have had occasion to meet with, in convents for instance, literally saintly examples of practical charity, they have generally had the brisk, decided, undisturbed and slightly brutal air of a busy surgeon, the face in which one can discern no commiseration, no tenderness at the sight of suffering humanity, and no fear of hurting it, the face devoid of gentleness or sympathy, the sublime face of true goodness. Marcel Proust
Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck
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Toba Beta
It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
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Nina Lacour
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Diogenes Of Sinope
Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.
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Banana Yoshimoto
The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.
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Sophie Kinsella
More Quotes By Marcel Proust
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days...
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were...
One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
