There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid,...
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Coco Chanel
I am not an angel, ' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall...
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Unknown
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
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David Foster Wallace
They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn...
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C. Joybell C.
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
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Tony Deliso
More Quotes By Theodore Dalrymple
The foundation of wisdom is knowing how to tell when you are totally clueless, lost, and in need of assistance.
The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.
Politicized science is like a prostitute with an STD. You know she has been fucked by a dirty politician.
There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.
Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.
