"If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction."

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Source : Primo Levi (1984). “The periodic table”, Schocken

Primo Levi

#Profound Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Calling Quotes

“I did bully somebody. I was insecure.”
“For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.”
“Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.”

Source : George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.345, Yale University Press
“The result was I went nowhere.”

Source : Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.38, Penguin
“I had a nice time over Christmas. I watched EastEnders - blimey, that makes my job look easy!”
“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.”
“Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.”
“Do not serve time, let time serve you.”

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