"It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed."

-- Anne Rice

#Temptation Quotes #Soul Quotes #Chance Quotes

“We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.”
“I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.”
“One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.”

Source : "Edouard Manet: Symphony in off-white" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2011.
“The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.”
“Finally I am becoming stupider no more.”

Source : "Variety in Religion and Science: Daily Reflections". Book by Varadaraja Raman, June 2005.
“I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.”
“Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.”
“Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.”

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