"One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation."

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Anne Carson

#Pain Quotes #Quality Quotes #Principles Quotes

“I want to work hard, and when good roles come along I don't want to pass them up.”
“Maybe Iâ€™m weak for music men. Maybe Iâ€™m weak, period. But I couldnâ€™t deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.”
“Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.”

Source : Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.287, Open Road Media
“What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press
“Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.”
“And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.”
“I was a bit of a rebel.”
“He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.”

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