"When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it."

-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#Letting Go Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.”
“Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?”
“How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers”
“Banality is sometimes striking.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (2015). “Hiroshima Mon Amour”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
“Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.”
“In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.”
“Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning? You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.”

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