"The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise..."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Sadness Quotes #Order Quotes #Noise Quotes

“The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply”
“... if you desire to marry you must realize that a mistress is won by the good temper and grace displayed while dancing... for dancing is practiced to reveal whether lovers are in good health and sound of limb, after which they are permitted to kiss their mistresses in order that they may touch and savor one another thus to ascertain if they are shapley or emit an unpleasant odor as of bad meat. Therefore, from this standpoint, quite apart from the many other advantages to be derived from dancing, it becomes an essential to a well-ordered society.”
“Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.”
“Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.”
“Say what you mean, be who you are, and hope for the best.”
“New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.”
“Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?”

Source : Ingrid Law (2008). “Savvy”, p.86, Penguin

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