"I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing."

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Source : Elif Batuman (2011). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.10, Granta Books

Elif Batuman

#Truth Quotes #Years Quotes #Care Quotes

“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.”
“I believe that doing movies like this is positive because they can inspire and be entertaining.”

Source : "Lions For Lambs - Andrew Garfield interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1972). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”
“I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.”
“I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.”
“If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that's sort of what meditation is like.”
“Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.”
“Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in.”

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