"Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing."

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Source : Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.468, Vintage

Hermann Broch

#Believe Quotes #Men Quotes #Reality Quotes

“The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.”
“When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is just, yet refuse to defend it--at that moment you begin to die. And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about justice.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Dec 01, 2010
“I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.”
“Persuasion is not a science but an art”
“If we were in tune and communing with God every moment, where would be the need to pray or ask for anything?”

Source : Daya Mata (1976). “Only Love”, Self Realization Fellowship Pub
“A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.”
“Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'”

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