"I felt like poisoning a monk."

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Umberto Eco

#Motivational Quotes #Monk Quotes #Poisoning Quotes

“Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since One Eight Seven.”
“If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.”
“It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.”
“Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.”
“All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.”
“I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little discoveries I make in terms of perspective and habitual thought patterns. My memory seems to let me down, so this really helps me.”
“Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?”
“Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order.”

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