"The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies."

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Source : John Lescroart (2009). “A Plague of Secrets”, p.90, Penguin

John Lescroart

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“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2015). “West With The Night”, p.182, Hachette UK
“You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.”
“I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.”
“It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.”
“God made Cabernet Sauvignon, whereas the Devil made Pinot Noir.”
“The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in.”
“Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”
“Nobody ever sees me. Thank you.”

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