"The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage."

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Source : Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.445, Macmillan

Jonathan Franzen

#Dream Quotes #Personality Quotes #Limitless Quotes

“Absolutely, love exists in this universe.”
“I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.”
“Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.237, Vintage
“Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar,”
“Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.”
“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.”

Source : Paul Auster (2009). “Oracle Night: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan
“Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.”
“We are individualized aspects of that oversoul, and the individualized soul - yours and mine and everyone else's on the planet - incarnates over and over and over again in a physical body, emotional astral body and mental body. These three bodies are temporary bodies that the soul creates and uses for a given time, long or short.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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