"Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light."

-- Wislawa Szymborska

#Light Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Secret Quotes

“I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.”
“For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.”
“Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.”
“So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.”
“Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.”

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“Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.”
“Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.”
“I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.”

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