"No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored..."

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Jean Helion

#Real Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.”
“I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.”

Source : "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut". Interview with Jane Ormerod, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.
“[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“History shows that when any state intends to make war against another state, even not adjacent, it begins to seek for frontiers across which it can reach the frontiers of the state it wants to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds such frontiers.”

Source : Source: www.marxists.org
“Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.”
“Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce.”
“And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.”
“A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.”

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