"A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere."

-- Walter Benjamin

#Determination Quotes #Growth Quotes #Blind Quotes

“America is such a nation of suppressed emotion, and when you arrive in L.A., you can smell the fear. It's the most alien country I've ever been to.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.”

Source : "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith". Book by Norman Lamm, 2002.
“The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.”
“Dogs never lie about love.”

Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2010). “The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years”, Harper Collins
“Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.”
“What are you looking at?â€ she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.”
“I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there's something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return, and those people are kind right to the heart.”

Source : Nahoko Uehashi (2014). “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit”, p.44, Scholastic Inc.
“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”

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