"Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.”
“I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and the most unfair target ever. So I did all the grades, just to annoy her.”

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“She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby”
“As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.”
“After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.”
“To live in that place where both sides could at any moment turn on you? It leaves you in a very traumatic spot.”

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“I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things for there to be too much of, there is too much to know and I don't know where to begin but I want to try.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction.”

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