"Obsession with self is the motif of our time."

-- Charles Krauthammer

#Self Quotes #Obsession Quotes #Motifs Quotes

“Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach”
“Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.”
“My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.”
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”
“I'm going to leave The Wanda Sykes Show and try to get her job because $5 million ain't too bad!”
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
“Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.”
“If only it were possible to love without injury â€“ fidelity isnâ€™t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again â€“ I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.”

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