"Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it."

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Source : 1963 A Summer Birdcage, ch.7.

Margaret Drabble

#Wisdom Quotes #Simple Quotes #Misery Quotes

“What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?”
“It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.”

Source : John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”
“Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.”
“The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.”
“Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.”

Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin
“For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.”
“All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you.”
“In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.”

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