"If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture."

-- Maxim Gorky

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Soul Quotes

“If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.”
“[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.”
“We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.15, Library of Alexandria
“Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.”
“I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.”
“Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.”
“The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.”

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