"The dead don't die. They look on and help."

-- D. H. Lawrence

#Looks Quotes #Helping Quotes

“There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.”
“Eat when it's time to eat. And move along when it's time to move along.”
“In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.”
“No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.”
“Thought as suchâ€¦ is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity.”
“You waste life when you waste good food.”
“I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.51, New Directions Publishing
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