"The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people."

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Source : 'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 1, pt. 11

Arthur Hugh Clough

#People Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Horrible Quotes

“First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.”
“When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can't budge you from believing God, he won't know what to do with you anymore.”
“However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.”
“Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think.”
“I moved out of my house at 17 and half, I rented an apartment... I pulled all the things off. It was pretty amazing and I lived a pretty good life, I had a car and I was making good money.”
“A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.”
“our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.”

Source : Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”
“There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.”

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