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Fernando Pessoa

"Man shouldnâ€™t be able to see his own face â€“ thereâ€™s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Eye Quotes #Heart Quotes #Men Quotes

“I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.”
“My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.”
“There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and shooting convenience store clerks all 'create jobs'. So that claim misses the plot; it applies to all so is an argument in favor of none. Instead of an argument on the merits, it is an admission that one has no such arguments.”
“How many rappers in the game have "little" in front of their name? Lil' Wayne, Lil' Boosie it's a lil' shame Lil' Flip, Lil' Cease, yo they not the same Lil' Wyte, Lil' Mama, where Lil' Zane? Little Brother, Lil' Jon, and Lil' Fame Real hip hop, not about your lil' chain Lil' Keke, Lil' Kim a lil' freaky Lil' Fizz, Illegal with Lil' Maliky Lil' Mo, Lil' Bow Wow had beef with Lil' Romeo A lil' teenager told me so...”
“Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.”
“The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2014). “The Word and the Bomb”, p.5, Faber & Faber
“Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."”
“Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue”

Source : "You're a Grand Old Flag" by George M. Cohan, 1906.

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