"Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people."

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Source : Annie Ernaux (2011). “Happening”, p.92, Seven Stories Press

Annie Ernaux

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.”
“I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.”
“Trump's last name is an omen that he'll win the Republican nomination, since "trump" means "triumph." One might suggest that this will constitute the triumph of insanity over reason, except that none of the other Republican candidates make any sense either. Trump just makes them seem less crazy by comparison.”
“I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.”
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
“As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the movement of light and electrons through matter, the intricate molecular order which is the biological basis of life, must be met by the creation of a moral and political order which will accommodate these forces or we shall be destroyed. It will try our deepest resources of reason and compassion.”
“If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.”
“I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day. They're little druggies.”

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