"Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past."

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Michael Simkins

#Past Quotes #Paris Quotes #Weight Quotes

“I don't know why I still feel this pit in my stomach whenever I get a moment to think. I know what the pit is, too; I feel lonely. But I'm not alone, I keep telling myself.”
“It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Open your eyes and look for some man, or some work for the sake of men, which needs a little time, a little friendship, a little sympathy, a little sociability, a little human toil....It is needed in every nook and corner. Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.”
“People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.”
“Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.”
“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.”
“Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.”

Source : Paul Shepard (2011). “The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game”, p.114, University of Georgia Press
“Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.”

Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

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