"The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?"

-- Dennis Lehane

#Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.”
“It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.”
“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
“I only mean forty per cent of what I say.”
“History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.”
“How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.”
“I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.”
“The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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