"If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

#Evil Quotes #Soul Quotes #Mosquitoes Quotes

“When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.”
“The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.”
“In life, every ending is just the start of another story.”

Source : Julian Barnes (2000). “Love, etc”, Jonathan Cape
“Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future”
“I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly taking down the framed examples of fine embroideries, samplers, and needlework from teh hallway wall and tucking them under her arm. "Mistress! Come on! You've got to leave!" She calmly turns and faces me. "Why?" she asks. "The British are coming?" "Only one, Mistress," I say”
“Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.”
“Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.”
“You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.”

Source : "Kaya Scodelario Talks THE TRUTH ABOUT EMANUEL, Working with Jessica Biel, Filming Underwater, THE MAZE RUNNER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 7, 2014.

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