"All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?"

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Source : Anthony Horowitz (2013). “Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin”, p.126, Penguin

Anthony Horowitz

#Sadness Quotes #Eye Quotes #Blow Quotes

“Seeing through is rarely seeing into.”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
“My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.”
“One of the things that troubles me the most in life, that upsets all of us, is that we reach this world with the capability to be anything. But then life starts to confine us inside our small realities. And then, the shadow of those other possible lives stays to lurk us and you can't shake it off, since it was so easy, it'd have been so easy to lead another life. We make twenty thousand small choices a day, and maybe one of those choices is the one that will take us to a completely different life. If you stop to think about it, it is vertiginous, hypnotizing and distressing.”
“The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. ... There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the man who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously.”

Source : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.43, Taylor & Francis
“If someone doesnâ€™t want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many people want to know what Scientology is.”
“I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.”
“There's something quite magical that can happen when a secret is no longer a secret - or is a shared secret or a common secret. By allowing those boundaries to be porous, certain forms of oppression may be lifted.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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