"With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?"

-- Jean Paul

#Gratitude Quotes #Joy Quotes #Black Quotes

“Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.”
“The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.”
“Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'”
“Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.”
“Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives with some imaginary consolation.Whatever is,is.Imagintion! It's so paltry!Yes,when you've grown older,as I have,you occasionally make do with the poor comedy of the imagination.”

Source : Jens Peter Jacobsen (2006). “Niels Lyhne”, p.60, Penguin
“Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.”
“Frankly, I'm getting a lot of great publicity.”
“Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep.”

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