"I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?"

-- Georges Bernanos

#Jobs Quotes #Secret Quotes #Nausea Quotes

“Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.”
“Weâ€™re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. Weâ€™d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.”
“Our directives must be reassessed.”
“People come, people go â€“ theyâ€™ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.”
“It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.”
“Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.”
“Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books”
“But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.”

Source : "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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