"One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world."

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Order Quotes #World Quotes

“It's amused me the writers who have assumed that I was referring to a hateful quality of society in the '80s. I think that degree of hatefulness is pretty much steady throughout human history. To me, it's just an amusing sense of self-deprecation - my hateful years. It was entirely personal; it was my personal, hateful years, when I most overtly tried to lash out at society. As I used to say: it was an attempt to burn society down to the ground.”
“End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”
“Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.”
“My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.”
“What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over.”
“Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.”
“Sometimes suffering is just suffering,â€ she told Gus. â€œIt doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.”

Source : Kate Jacobs (2008). “Comfort Food”, p.123, Penguin
“The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption.”

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