"Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!"

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Men Quotes #Used Quotes #Scoundrels Quotes

“For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.”
“Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
“Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.”
“When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!”
“Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.”

Source : Julius Lester (2005). “The Autobiography of God: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan
“There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.11, Quirk Books
“Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.”
“In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.”

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