"I didnâ€™t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free."

-- Sylvia Plath

#Lying Quotes #Flower Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.”
“History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream ...”
“Every morning is good news, every child that is born is good news, every just man is good news, every singer is good news, because every singer is one less soldier.”
“I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations,”
“He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.”
“Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.”

Source : Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.284, University of Chicago Press
“With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary key to our being or non-being resides in each individual human heart, in the heart's preference for specific good or evil. Yet this remains true even today, and it is, in fact, the most reliable key we have. The social theories that promised so much have demonstrated their bankruptcy, leaving us at a dead end.”
“They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldnâ€™t go any futrther because of the ocean. Thatâ€™s France, thatâ€™s the French people.”

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