"The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost."

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

#Eye Quotes #Giving Quotes #Soul Quotes

“He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.”
“Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.”
“For months I had been trying to be less myself.”

Source : Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Vapor: A Novel”, p.3, Open Road Media
“I don't understand why a Mark Rothko painting - as much as I love Mark Rothko - has to cost $73 million. I mean, I think $14 million is a pretty reasonable sum of money for a good Rothko painting. What's disturbing about this present moment is that these prices have been so out of control.”
“But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.”
“All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.”

Source : "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Chap. 30. Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.
“My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.”
“Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.”

Source : "Off the clock: Tom Kristensen interview". Interview with Eric Thompson, www.nzherald.co.nz. July 23, 2011.

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