"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."

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Source : "All Said and Done". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1972.

Simone de Beauvoir

#Inspirational Quotes #Truth Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Serve many fruitlessly, If one repay, Th' ingratitude of thousands 'twill outweigh.”
“Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.”
“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.”
“Now more than ever the world has to come together to make changes. Just because certain cultures have had long-standing traditions does not mean that in today's world they are acceptable any longer. The world and the environment are evolving and that means we must change our ways as human beings as well.”
“Study first, play afterwards.”
“Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith”
“I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.”

Source : John Braine (1980). “Room at the top”

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