"Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep."

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Source : "The Lie of the Truth (Volume 2)". Book by Rene Daumal, 1938.

Rene Daumal

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Animal Quotes

“I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.”
“I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.”
“She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?”
“I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!”
“Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?”
“If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.”

Source : Philip Morin Freneau (1809). “Poems Written and Published During the American Revolutionary War, and Now Republished from the Original Manuscripts: Interspersed with Translations from the Ancients, and Other Pieces Not Heretofore in Print”, p.148
“The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.”
“If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.”

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