"People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one."

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Source : "Walking Through Walls" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. March 8, 2010.

Marina Abramovic

#People Quotes #Effort Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Okay, you can stay at home and Spotify, or YouTube, or you can get off your ***** and come listen to what real musicians making real music sound like. And, hey, it doesn't have to be me, but if I'm in town, then yeah, you should definitely check me out.”
“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
“Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.”

Source : "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 272), 2001.
“If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.”
“In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.”
“We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.”
“I will always remember you, even though you had no idea I was even in the room. My words wouldn't come, I could only dream. A crush or a love?”
“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”

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