"Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands."

-- Nicky Singer

#Blood Quotes #Hands Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.”
“Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.”
“Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.”
“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”
“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.”
“The Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,â€ Jessica said severely. â€œIt would be far more profitable to pry Dain loose for yourself,â€ said her grandmother. â€œHe is very wealthy, his lineage is excellent, he is young, strong, and healthy, and you feel a powerful attraction.â€ â€œHe isnâ€™t husband material.â€ â€œWhat I have described is perfect husband material.â€ said her grandmother. â€œI donâ€™t want a husband.â€ â€œJessica, no woman does who can regard men objectively. And you have always been magnificently objective.”
“To say goodbye is to die a little.”

Source : Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.336, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.”

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