"Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Men Quotes #Despair Quotes #Criminals Quotes

“A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.”
“Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.”
“I don't think I have any celeb crushes!”
“Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.”
“Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.”
“I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them.”
“I will watch over My flock by night (Isaiah 27:3). Behold, I have appointed My ministers as your watchmen, as overseers who watch for your souls (Hebrews 13:17; Acts 20:28)”
“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”

Source : Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “Three Comrades: A Novel”, p.258, Random House

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