"The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out."

-- Saul Leiter

#Important Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Choose who you are in any given moment.”
“I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it...I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth...This is I, the machine, manoeuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations... Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.”
“Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.”
“The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.”
“As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.”
“Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier.”
“I don't want to disappear.”
“Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.”

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