"Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake."

-- Ernest Gaines

#Mistake Quotes #Book Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.”
“My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.”
“The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.”
“Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.”
“If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.”
“I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.”
“I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.”
“You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.”

Source : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.49, Cosimo Classics

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