"I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the worldâ€™s muteness."

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Source : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1960). “Invitation to a beheading: a novel”, Putnam Adult

Vladimir Nabokov

#Desire Quotes #World Quotes #Defiance Quotes

“When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jan 24, 2012
“... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.”
“I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.”
“The future exists only in our imagination it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express that can only happen when you and I are willing to enter the emptiness listening in the silence until we can begin to create a future we can befriend.”
“To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.”
“Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.”
“I'm not going to star in every one of my movies. But I'm telling you [pounds fists] what I will bring to this film industry is the same thing I brought to the record industry when I came into it. Realism. Uncompromised, unconditional dog love.”
“It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the professed spirituality is simply a false experience, a delusion of the devil. People who are satisfied to meet together simply to have a good time among themselves are far away from God. Real spirituality always has an outcome.”

Source : Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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