"When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador."

-- Agnes Repplier

#Travel Quotes #Mind Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.”
“Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum”
“Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.”
“When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.”
“Hale, stop it.â€ Kat reached out and grabbed his arm. â€œYou are many things, but stupid isn't one of them.â€ â€œI'm too close.â€ â€œYou don't get it, do you? Being close is good. Caring is good. I love that you're emotional and passionate and can't turn these things off.â€ â€œIt makes me a bad thief.â€ â€œIt makes you a good person.”
“If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.”
“When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.”
“Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.”

Source : Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.324, Penguin

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