"Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years."

-- Marcel Proust

#Disappointment Quotes #Garden Quotes #Self Quotes

“ALL KNOWLEDGE is possible for anyone - and the Cosmos gives it to him who asks, but all information is impossible.”
“I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid”
“People see what they want to see.”
“When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.”
“To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies”
“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.”
“The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.”
“It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.”

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