"When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made."

-- Yukio Mishima

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.”

Source : "Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition", ed. William Philips, 1985.
“Obedience is less painful than regret.”
“Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.”
“I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.”
“I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.”
“I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.”
“No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.”

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