"As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but I might suffer somehow if other people are being spied on and blocked from doing important work that might have a collective benefit down the road. The personal doesn't necessarily translate to the social."

-- Astra Taylor

#People Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Important Quotes

“Iâ€™d wanted emotion but couldnâ€™t find it here, so I settled for motion.”
“Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited.”

Source : Stephen White (2007). “Dry Ice”, p.412, Penguin
“I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.”
“It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.”
“I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.”

Source : "Gareth Bale's best friend ditches job and girlfriend to join footballer at Real Madrid" by Nick Dorman, www.mirror.co.uk. September 8, 2013.
“I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.”

Source : Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro (1943). “Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien”
“Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.”
“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”

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