"It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls."

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Source : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

Muriel Barbery

#Soul Quotes #Insecurity Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Well that's what I generally do with books - I read them.”
“I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes.”
“The only two men I have time for are Barack Obama and my trainer.”
“In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.”

Source : Rory Stewart (2009). “The Places In Between”, p.92, Pan Macmillan
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.15, New Directions Publishing
“Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.”
“I knew I wasn't the person to play Ponyboy because I'm a girl, but without knowing it, I understand that was a place I could put all the stuff that I was feeling.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.”

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