"I see that I must give what I most need."

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Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.292, Emblem Editions

Anne Michaels

#Giving Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.”
“From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.”
“You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.”
“Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.”
“It means a lot to me that people appreciate what I do. That's why I give a lot of importance to my fans and I like to maintain a certain proximity to them. I already feel very thankful that people enjoy my work so much, and becoming famous is not my ultimate goal. I think it's important to keep a good balance between what I want to do and what people want to hear; otherwise I might fall into the dark side.”

Source : Source: www.atickettosomewhere.com
“Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?”
“We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.252, Granta Books
“This country of ours was built on violence; If your ***** got in the way, you was killed in silence. And these been the ways since back in the days: Just ask the Indians or the African slaves.”

Source : Song: The Ways, Album: A Long Hot Summer

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