"Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things"

-- Gilles Deleuze

#Thinking Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Ease Quotes

“I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.”
“What's a bag of chips divided by five, that's a Nike worker's meal.”
“We've come to expect so little from online privacy measures that public displays of concern about the matter are more or less for show. Being devastated to discover you've been tagged in somebody else's photo has an air of the melodramatic about it at this point.”
“We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.”
“Thereâ€™s something so great about this,â€ she whispers. About what?â€ I whisper back. About this,â€ she whispers. About being outlaws. Itâ€™s just you and meâ€”against the world.”
“I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!”
“No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.”

Source : Michael Frayn (2013). “Constructions”, p.22, Faber & Faber
“Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?”

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