The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.

Edmund De Waal
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  2. I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human. - Louise Erdrich

  4. People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people. - Johnny Depp

  5. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus

More Quotes By Edmund De Waal
  1. One must judiciously retrospect not just his actions but also reactions of the other in order to arrive at a sensible conclusion. The primary fallacy is that you're assuming that the other is functioning out of awareness - which is falsity and this further aggrevates...

  2. Until now psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification while studying subjects, but believe me I'm coining a new term: VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION, which will become a new form of craving in near future. Watch On!

  3. Consciously I love you so intensely, which is why I choose to hurt you unconsciously!

  4. They made love through their eyes, while their gestures conveyed otherwise!

  5. You will love and admire the One who is honest and blunt in his views, as long as you're not his subject of viewpoint!

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