"each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's."

--

Erica Jong

#Coats Quotes #Torn Quotes #Feels Quotes

“There is not a moment without some duty.”
“I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.”
“I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.”
“There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.”
“My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.”
“Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.”
“I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr. His book is called Gravity Is a Push. I wrote to him and told him about my father, and he said he wished he'd met him. My father died quite a while ago.”
“Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.”

Source : Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.142, Cornell University Press

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