“He does not know what freedom is. Freedom is a word, less than a word, a noise, one of the multitude of noises I make when I open my mouth.”
― Foe
― Foe
“Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.”
― Disgrace
― Disgrace
“There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.”
― Elizabeth Costello
― Elizabeth Costello
“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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