"Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself."

-- Siri Hustvedt

#Curiosity Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Desire Quotes

“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”
“On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of Terrence Jaxon, signatory of the One Law; great-great-nephew of the one known as Auntie, Last of the First; Peter of Souls, the Man of Days and the One Who Stood-took his position on the catwalk above Main Gate, waiting to kill his brother.”

Source : Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.267, Ballantine Books
“Everything I see, I now see through a mother's eyes.”
“No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.”
“The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (1958). “Essays in Appreciation”
“Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.”
“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”
“Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.”

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