"Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves."

-- Octavio Paz

#Wall Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Self Quotes

“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

Source : "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.
“Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.”

Source : Bob Kerrey, Robert Kerrey (2003). “When I Was a Young Man: A Memoir”, Harvest Books
“Ric Flair, the stratosphere is reserved for you and me.”
“There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.”

Source : "Inglourious Basterds Interview: Melanie Laurent". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. August, 2009.
“Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the housing crisis and even the severe recession. You look at the best places to live, according to Money's 2009 list, and 9 of the 10 are Whitopias.”

Source : "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.
“I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up ***** entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.37, Granta Books
“Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.”
“If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.”

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