"In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the"

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Source : Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

Raoul Vaneigem

#Death Quotes #Real Quotes #Men Quotes

“It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.”
“Writing music is just something that I was born to do.”
“Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.”
“We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.”

Source : Annie Proulx (1996). “The Shipping news”
“A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.”
“A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.”
“O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.”
“This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Jacoby from Aug 27, 2013

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