"The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender spines, but in the moments or periods they evokedâ€¦ Her self, then, was represented in her books; her times in her records; and the rest of the room she thought of as a pure, blank slate."

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Source : FaceBook post by Claire Messud from Aug 23, 2012

Claire Messud

#Wall Quotes #Book Quotes #Self Quotes

“Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answerâ€”good, honest, noble work.”
“I'm not a huge drama person. I think I liked them more when I was younger.”
“Different languages cut the world into different slices.”
“You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?”
“Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.”
“Everyone faces difficulties; not everyone looks for the opportunities in every difficulty.”
“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.
“I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?”

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