"All wealth is relative; and so is its absence."

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Source : Sybille Bedford (2016). “A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey”, p.81, New York Review of Books

Sybille Bedford

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“Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.”
“Fashion is a vampiric thing, it's the hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, 'Oh, can I kiss you?' I say, 'No, thank you very much. That's why I've worn the hat. Goodbye.' I don't want to be kissed by all and sundry. I want to be kissed by the people I love.”
“An ad that pretends to be art is â€“ at absolute best â€“ like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.”

Source : "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". Essay by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1997.
“I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.”
“Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.”
“You can't be more alive than you are—but you can awaken to what living is.”
“I think now because of this whole social media thing, people obviously felt these things [about cultural appropriation] before, and they comment on everything.”
“It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.”

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