"The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly."

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Alain de Botton

#God Quotes #Soul Quotes #World Quotes

“Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.”

Source : Paul Caponigro (1972). “Paul Caponigro”
“Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn but is evil! Follow the precepts of Comrade Stalin. Stamp out the fascist beast once and for all in its lair! Use force and break the racial pride of these German women. Take them as your lawful booty. Kill! As you storm onward, kill, you gallant soldiers of the Red Army.”
“Do women dress for men or women? Iâ€™ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approval by either sex. But the question is never satisfactorily answered because it is incorrectly posed. Itâ€™s disapproval, the fear of it, that motivates most women, and with disapproval it doesnâ€™t matter where it comes from.”
“Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; itâ€™s what makes being a best friend official.”
“Where there is no hope, we must invent it.”
“It's the things we love most that destroy us.”

Source : "Fictional character: President Snow". "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - part 1", 2014.
“My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.”

Source : "Anthony Hopkins: 'I've never been really close to anyone'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.

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