"Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow."

-- George Eliot

#Oddities Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Faults Quotes

“American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.”
“Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.”
“The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman.”
“A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.”
“Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.”
“happy people have got something to give to the world.”

Source : Patricia Wentworth (1953). “Vanishing point”
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

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