"All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Pride Quotes #Lust Quotes #Sloth Quotes

“Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.”
“Because nothing makes love and life matter more than the knowledge that some day it must end.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2014). “Drinking Midnight Wine”, p.206, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
“Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row
“There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.”

Source : Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics
“A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.”
“When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.”

Source : "Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera". Book by Anne Carson, www.newyorker.com. 2005.
“My job is to awaken possibility in other people.”
“It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'.”

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