"What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #Desert Quotes

“It is not theatre that is indispensable, but something quite different. To cross the frontiers between you and me.”
“I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.”
“Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
“Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.”
“Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.”
“This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sphere of mechanical or scientific explanation. It splits the world of the mind from the world of science. It is often supposed to protect our cherished free will.”
“Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.”
“Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.”

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