"...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it."

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M. F. K. Fisher

#Littles Quotes #Detachment Quotes

“Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets”
“Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in other people. Share the truth and be ready for the miracle to unfold”
“I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.”
“A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.”
“Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that the Salaf and the Imaams have not spoken about such things, neither by way of a negation nor by way of affirmation. Rather, they declared those who spoke about such matters to be innovators and went to great lengths to censure them.”
“Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.”
“Everything happens for me, not to me.”
“Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.”

Source : Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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