"I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself."

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Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.317, W. W. Norton & Company

Rabih Alameddine

#Believe Quotes #I Believe Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.”
“Amy Pond is, er...I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.”
“The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.”
“When we open to love, we become love.”
“My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.”
“Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.”
“The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.”
“When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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