"People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price."

-- Hjalmar SÃ¶derberg

#People Quotes #Soul Quotes #Connections Quotes

“Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“Butch put his hand on his roommate's nape and murmured, "I'll do the saving until you get your head back, how about that? I'll keep you safe.”
“Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.”

Source : William Johnson Cory (1858). “Ionica”, p.31
“Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.”
“A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.”
“. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.”
“We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.”
“I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.”

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