"What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?"

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Elif Safak

#World Quotes #Roaming Quotes #Misery Quotes

“Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.”
“His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.”
“We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.252, Granta Books
“Nothing is a mistake. Thereâ€™s no win and no fail. Thereâ€™s only make.”
“Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk - lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say O.K. Why do I feel so sorry for everyone and so proud?”
“Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.”
“I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.”
“We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.”

Source : Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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