Didier Eribon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."
We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
Maybe I'm not good for you. Maybe what I feel is wrong. Because I did love Ashton. She was all I needed... but never did I feel the uncontrollable desire to get her underneath me. Never did I make up reasons to get her to wrap her legs around me so I could feel her pressed up against me. Never. He swallowed hard. "Never did I think about being inside her
Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

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