"To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power."

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Source : Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

Roland Barthes

#Waiting Quotes #Constant Quotes #Prerogative Quotes

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
“Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.65
“What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judged by the number of diseases from which he escapes. The value of a man is in his human qualities: in his character, in his conscience, in the nobility and magnanimity, of his soul. Torturing animals to prolong human life has separated science from the most important thing that life has produced - the human conscience.”
“I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.”
“My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.”
“You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable.”
“The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.176, Vintage
“Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.”

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