“Volubility came easily to Max Ophuls, but it was just one of his many techniques of concealment, and he was never more hidden than when he seemed most open. For”
― Shalimar the Clown
― Shalimar the Clown
“she’d seen the spark in his fledgling soul, and no one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him.”
― Timbuktu
― Timbuktu
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?” “Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you’re thinking about life and about the world.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“It would be truly wonderful if we could live as alcoholics do, to be unwarlike for just another day. We don’t.”
― Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut
― Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut
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