"I was focused before - obsessed, really - with the appearance of perfection. But what did that ever bring me but pain? Pain and not seeing people for who they really are. If I ever get out of here, I'll look at people differently. I'll look for their true selves beneath the mask of their bodies. I'll look at soul."

-- Cheryl Rainfield

#Pain Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”

Source : Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.302, Pan Macmillan
“I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.”

Source : "Q+A with Steven Holl". Interview with Josephine Minutillo, www.architecturaldigest.com. December 31, 2011.
“I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy.”
“It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.”
“There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.”

Source : Louis J. Camuti, Lloyd Alexander (1962). “Park Avenue Vet”
“Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.”
“A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.”
“Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?”

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