"The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death."

-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#Hate Quotes #People Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.”
“You donâ€™t have to be at every volleyball game. We canâ€™t guilt ourselves.”
“I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.”
“I have allowed the president to pick his political appointeesâ€¦But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.”
“If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.”
“One cannot escape dogmasâ€”those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.”
“Canadians always make jokes about the arrogant American, but the longer I'm here, the more I realize, "Oh, it isn't that they're arrogant, it's just the way that their country is set up you really have to protect yourself and you really have to look after yourself, and with that comes the mentality of 'I'm doing my thing here, if you don't like it, get over it.'"”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.”

Source : "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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