"Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places."

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Source : "The Complete Novels".

Flann O'Brien

#Enlightenment Quotes #Strange Quotes #Higher Quotes

“She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes and a tragic smile, the course of whose life would conspire in time to transpose that pair of adjectives.”
“I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.”
“Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.”
“Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.”
“We realized that YouTube is a rocket ship and that this is an incredibly big space. I started agitating for it. I was the most passionate voice for acquiring YouTube: 'The price tag seems really high, but it is going to be worth it.”
“Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.”

Source : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
“The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.”
“Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. One can even tell the nature of one's readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.”

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