"How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?"

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David Mitchell

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“Education has a tremendous power on man. Can't we see to which astonishing disciple the people of Sparte have submitted ("s'est pliÃ©", Fr.) for centuries, and this with a view to very petty purposes: purely outer greatness, the military predominace of Sparte. This example proves that man can everything on themselves when they want it ("peuvent tout sur eux-mÃªmes quand ils le veulent", Fr.); therefore it would only be a question of making them will the good.”
“The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the less he is judged by man, the more he is judged by God. Still the less can the Roman Pontiff glory because he can be judged by men, or rather, can be shown to be already judged, if for example he should wither away into heresy; because he who does not believe is already judged, In such a case it should be said of him: 'If salt should lose its savor, it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trampled under foot by men.'”
“The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.”
“We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it.”
“I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.”

Source : Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”
“Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go.”
“Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?”
“If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.”

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