"People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy."

-- John Cheever

#Philosophy Quotes #People Quotes #Confusion Quotes

“Don't chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you.”
“Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.”

Source : Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.43, Vintage
“I know I'm flawed - but perfect is boring anyway! Flawed is good!”
“If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.”
“I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.”
“The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.”

Source : "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". Book by Alfred Kinsey, 1948.
“Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.”
“Molly: You don't like New Years Eve? Are you insane? It's literally the best holiday ever. You just party all night and it doesn't matter what stupid stuff you do because the year's over and you get a brand new start in the morning.”

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