"There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless."

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Simone de Beauvoir

#Travel Quotes #New York Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.”

Source : "Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society".
“I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the progress of civilization, and I would also say this: that the emancipation of the mind from religious superstition is as essential to the progress of civilization as is emancipation from physical slavery.”
“The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.”
“I have no interest in saying "This is who I am! This is what I'm like!"”
“The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.”
“Montreal's not a city. It's a Disney World for alcoholics.”
“We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.”
“I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.”

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