"I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!"

-- Peter Handke

#Country Quotes #Who I Am Quotes #History Quotes

“The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.”
“In 1965, I marched for equality.”
“To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur (1990). “Harvest song: collected essays and stories”, West End Pr
“When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.”
“There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.”

Source : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 31
“Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.”

Source : Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.16, Crown Business
“Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering”
“It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.”

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