"When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all."

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Source : Mark Van Doren (1968). “Autobiography”

Mark Van Doren

#World Quotes #Failing Quotes #Reason Quotes

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.106
“Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.”
“You are the most powerful magnet in the universe! You contain a magnetic power within you that is more powerful than anything in this world, and this unfathomable magnetic power is emitted through your thoughts”
“No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.”
“Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.”
“The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.”
“I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.”
“I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.”

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