"The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out."

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Source : 1859 Oblomov, pt.2, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).

Ivan Goncharov

#Life Quotes #Passion Quotes #Fire Quotes

“When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems are impossibly daunting. But when you go out and put yourself in real relation to real people, or even just real animals, thereâ€™s a very real danger that you might end up loving some of them. And who knows what might happen to you then?”

Source : FaceBook post by Jonathan Franzen from Apr 06, 2012
“I'm not interested in entertainment.”

Source : "Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2012.
“The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off womanâ€™s true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female spirit, mind, creativity and sexuality exist anywhere in a powerful way it is here, among lesbian-feminists.”

Source : Janice G. Raymond (1980). “The transsexual empire”
“Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.'”
“Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the history of the universe, I'm going to address Jonathan Gruber's confirmation that he believes we're all stupid.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?”

Source : "Get to Know Fall's Hot Guys!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, Slide 5, www.seventeen.com. September 19, 2011.
“Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is our innate moral goodness, compassion, and pity which, when liberated, lead us to value all forms of life. It is obvious, then, that willfully to take life, or through the eating of meat indirectly to cause others to kill, runs counter to the deepest instincts of human beings.”

Source : Philip Kapleau (1982). “To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian”, Harper San Francisco
“The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.”

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