"Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't."

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Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

Elizabeth Bowen

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“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”

Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, p.170, Penguin UK
“The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .”
“The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.”
“They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.”
“Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.”
“The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.”
“My mother once told me that no women is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady glare.”
“If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”

Source : "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p. 37 - 38), 1928.

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