"The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel."

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Source : "Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

Rachel Cusk

#Important Quotes #Fundamentals Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.”
“Among many U. S. wine consumers, California holds a strong position.”
“I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.”
“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
“True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.”
“Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?”
“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
“Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.”

Source : Ernst Cassirer (2012). “Language and Myth”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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