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“The worst time to give someone your opinion, is when no one has asked for it.”
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“When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson's opinion on law, the lawyer's on doctoring, the doctor's on business, and my business-man's . . . on morals.”
― Far From the Madding Crowd
― Far From the Madding Crowd
“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself.
You hide to protect yourself.”
― Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
You hide to protect yourself.”
― Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
“Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?”
― This is My Story
― This is My Story
“Opinions are like ugly children … despite it all you love your own.”
― A Working Theory of Love
― A Working Theory of Love
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