"a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day."

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Source : Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

Luis de Camoes

#Caring Quotes #Jail Quotes #Desire Quotes

“From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.”
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”
“The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible. It is a luxury not to have to think about race, or class, or gender. Only those marginalized by some category understand how powerful that category is when deployed against them.”
“The Financial Times is pro-British membership of the European Union. We have taken that position for decades. But we are not starry-eyed about the European Union. And we do not believe and have not believed for at least 10 years that Britain should be part of the euro.”
“The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.”

Source : Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when whatâ€™s usually in the center of a painting is very important? It's like the main course isn't there and you're having to deal with everything around what would normally be the main course.”
“Never insult seven men if you're only carrying a six shooter.”
“Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.”

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