"In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman."

-- Albert Camus

#Men Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Arrogance Quotes

“I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.”

Source : "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.
“Have pity on a dinosaur.”
“You will have a growing knack for gravitating toward wilder, wetter, more interesting problems. More and more, you will be drawn to the kind of gain that doesn't requite pain. You'll be so alive and awake that you'll cheerfully push yourself out of your comfort zone in the direction of your personal frontier well before you're forced to do so by divine kicks in the ass.”
“And I call Saks Fifth Ave-y home. That is where a real bad Barbie roam.”
“Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound sort of predates form.”
“Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.”
“The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.”
“The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.”

Source : Henry Williamson (1963). “The Power of the Dead”

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