"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them."

-- Agnes Repplier

#Past Quotes #Disease Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Wouldnâ€™t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say â€˜I never want to smoke againâ€™, then spend the rest of your life saying â€˜Iâ€™d love a cigarette.â€™ Thatâ€™s what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.”
“The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.”
“Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.”
“When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.”

Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 10, 10,
“The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.”
“In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.”
“Temper your future actions.”
“When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can't be allowed to live. Especially if she's sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone.”

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