"Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society."

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Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

Abdellah Taia

#Oneself Quotes #Capable Quotes

“Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.”

Source : "Feeling Our Emotions". Interview with Manuela Lenzen, www.scientificamerican.com.
“There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.”

Source : Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.1, Harmony
“Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes itself heard only to give us orders and establish prohibitions, we cannot recognize our own voices; the very tone in which it speaks to us warns us that it expresses something within us that is not of ourselves.”
“Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been through an extra filter, another consciousness, in the guise of the translator. Some of my favorite writers who have written in English were doing so without English being their first language, so there's a sense of distance or of distortion there, too. Conrad. Nabokov. These writers were employing English in interesting ways.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.”
“My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.”
“If you ever hear yourself or anyone you care about starting to express the belief that a problem is permanent, itâ€™s time to immediately shake that person loose. No matter what happens in your life, youâ€™ve got to be able to believe, 'This, too, shall pass,' and that if you keep persisting, youâ€™ll find a way.”

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