“For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.”
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“The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself. Here am I, a typical member of the middle class. It is easy for me to say that I want to get rid of class-distinctions, but nearly everything I think and do is a result of class-distinctions. All my notions — notions of good and evil, of pleasant and unpleasant, of funny and serious, of ugly and beautiful — are essentially middle-class notions; my taste in books and food and clothes, my sense of honour, my table manners, my turns of speech, my accent, even the characteristic movements of my body, are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special niche about half-way up the social hierarchy.”
― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
“Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped,
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.”
― Titus Andronicus
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.”
― Titus Andronicus
“How desperate do you have to be to start doing push-ups to solve your problems?”
― A Man in Love
― A Man in Love
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