"It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return."

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Source : Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.56, Macmillan

Sheila Heti

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“Arafat was a barrier to peace.”
“God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.”
“The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.”
“A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.”

Source : Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.10
“Optimism is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.”

Source : "The Canon of Judo". Book by Kyuzo Mifune, 1956.
“It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.”

Source : Henry St John's letter to Alexander Pope, as quoted in "The Work of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Selected from the Best Authorities. In Four Volumes. Volume III", 1841.
“Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them.”

Source : Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard, Institute without Boundaries (2004). “Massive change”, Phaidon Press

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