"When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And thatâ€™s why you love them."

-- Patrick Modiano

#Mystery Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Now everyone's main objective of taking photographs is to have a photograph for Twitter or Facebook. I find that troubling. If you have an opportunity to meet the Dalai Lama, don't work out your camera or iPhone issues. Sit and a listen to what the man is saying, because nine times out of 10, you're not going to look at that photo. You're not going to look at the video. As a photographer, I don't carry a camera. I have my iPhone, but I don't carry a camera. I want to live.”
“This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.”
“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”
“If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.6, Courier Corporation
“I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.”
“Light is impressionism.”

Source : Time, December 8, 1986.
“I want to be funny, but it has to be a believable funny.”
“You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.”

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