...Quotables @ Bookshelf ...

WhiskeyScotch

“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”

― Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

WhiskeyScotch

“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”

― Lorrie Moore, Like Life

WhiskeyScotch

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”

― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

WhiskeyScotch

“Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”

― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

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“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”

― Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

WhiskeyScotch

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”

― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

WhiskeyScotch

“The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.”

― Pandora Poikilos, Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

seribulan

"You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are."

—Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

bianglala

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

- Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close : JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

bianglala

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

- The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey : MUHAMMAD ALI AND HANA YASMEEN ALI

bianglala

The moment of perceiving something beautiful confers on the perceiver the gift of life.

- On Beauty and Being Just : ELLEN SCARRY

bianglala

Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

- The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings ) : J.R.R TOLKEIN

bianglala

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

- The Complete Verse (Anvil Editions) (English and French Edition) : CHARLESS BAUDELAIRE

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Though we may be sober now, we will never be clean.

- We love certain people like addictions : BIANCA SPARACINO

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

- The Great Gatsby : F.SCOTT FITZGERALD

bianglala

The only true obscenity is war.’

- Tropic of Cancer : HENRY MILLER

bianglala

There are no facts, only interpretations.

- The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library) : FRIEDRICH NIETZCSHE  

bianglala

You are ancient ideas in a mortal body.

- If You Are Still Fighting But Losing Hope, Read This : NIKITA GILL

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Your eyes are full of language.

- Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters : ANNE SEXTON

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Our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

- The Poetics of Space : GASTON BACHELARD