"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."

-- Alexandre Dumas

#Moments Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Difficulty Quotes

“I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.”
“I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.”
“We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.”
“Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.”
“Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?”
“enemies are created, not born ...”
“A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.”

Source : David Shields (2013). “How Literature Saved My Life”, p.197, Vintage
“An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender”

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