"This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves, take the 140-character expository bursts and sift through for the information you need. It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality."

-- David Levithan

#Character Quotes #Reality Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”
“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
“So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many of the ancients the consummation of mathematics-would be by far the most outstanding. This art which is as it were the head of all the liberal arts and the one most worthy of a free man leans upon nearly all the other branches of mathe matics. Arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service.”
“The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.”
“If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (1978). “Jake's Thing”, Hutchinson Radius
“It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.”

Source : Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.10
“Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.”
“Questions outlive the answers.”

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