"That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects."

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Source : John Webster (2016). “The Duchess of Malfi”, p.65, John Webster

John Webster

#Men Quotes #Ruins Quotes #Belief Quotes

“I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city.”
“we live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many digital recordings of Beethoven's Ninth, too many choices of rearview mirrors on the latest Renault. Sometimes you say to yourself: It's too much, it's all too much.”

Source : Corinne Maier (2005). “Bonjour laziness: jumping off the corporate ladder”, Pantheon
“The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.”
“Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.”
“A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.”
“Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra
“There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night”
“Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.”

Source : Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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