"Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it."

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Samuel Butler

#Nature Quotes #Men Quotes #Animal Quotes

“My work is always very geometric.”
“You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.”
“Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.”
“I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.”
“One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.”
“There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.”
“Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.”
“This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.”

Source : "This Englishwoman" l. 1 (1937)

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