"I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings."

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Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2012). “The Bad Girl”, p.240, Faber & Faber

Mario Vargas Llosa

#Loyalty Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.”
“Actually, Congress just did pass a tax plan like Donald Trump`s.They passed a tax plan which some Democrats voted for, significant number of Democrats which gave huge tax breaks to wealthy people and corporations.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.”
“Happiness is a habitâ€”cultivate it.”
“You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when”
“Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty, during which men . . . forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice. . . . They forgot that their rights were founded on their duties. . . . They thought it clever to be cynical, enlightened to be unbelieving, and sensible to be soft.”
“A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.”
“In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.”

Source : Raymond Mortimer (1976). “Try anything once”, Hamish Hamilton

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