"One is always half mad when one is shy of people."

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Source : Robert Walser (2014). “Jakob von Gunten”, p.15, New York Review of Books

Robert Walser

#Mad Quotes #People Quotes #Half Quotes

“Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.”
“Functional exercise is not defined by what it looks like, it's defined by what it produces”
“For good or for bad, India has rejected a more totalitarian approach to how it will deal with its social problems. We would starve but we would not give up our democracy and our love for our freedoms and to deal with these problems in an atmosphere of democracy and the rule of law without necessarily going, sort of resorting to civil disobedience or any kind of violent revolution.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.”
“A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.”
“the question now was...whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution]...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.”

Source : "The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox in the House of Commons. Volume I" edited by J. Wright, (p. 261), 1815.
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
“I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.”

Source : Jim Harrison (2007). “Off to the Side: A Memoir”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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