Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
Marie, let’s suppose that two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterwards, when they emerge and go over to a stream, the face of one is all smeared with black, while the other man’s face is completely clean. My question...
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Paulo Coelho
You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
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Stefan Molyneux
A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.
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Amit Kalantri
Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you, it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know, your fears, your 4 am thoughts, your achievements, are things I no longer have an equivalent to. Who we were and who we are...
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Tanzy Sayadi
More Quotes By W. H. Auden
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.
Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.
Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.
Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.
