"Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others."

-- Wally Lamb

#Ironic Quotes #Facts Quotes #Connections Quotes

“The word of the day is legs. Let's go back to my place and spread the word.”
“I have an old brain but a terrific memory.”
“I donâ€™t think success is a place or a definition, I think itâ€™s a direction.”
“The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.”
“Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the dust manifest. you see the dust whirling, but how can the dust rise by itself? you see the foam, but not the ocean. invoke Him with deeds, not words; for deeds are real and will save you in the infinite-life.”
“What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.”
“In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.”
“Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.”

Source : Sophocles, Paul Roche (1991). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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