"When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]."

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Simone de Beauvoir

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Despair Quotes

“My suspicion is that we're near a near-term low. The reality is the majority of the selling short-term is over with - the market doesn't want to go down.”
“Secrets have a way of eating away at us from the inside”

Source : Justin Somper (2010). “Vampirates: Tide of Terror”, p.125, Simon and Schuster
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

Source : "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.
“Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.”
“I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.”
“We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.”
“Imagine that itâ€™s not about the self and its concerns, about â€˜whatâ€™s in it for me,â€™ whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.”
“It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.”

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