"I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity."

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Humanity Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Bows Quotes

“Don't tell anyone. I'm supposed to be dumb.”
“One of the things that I always think about is the emotional sophistication of animals and how much we're learning about the emotional sophistication of animals. If you're eating a pig, you're essentially eating the equivalent of a four-year-old human being.”
“I'm kind of like a relic from another era.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.”
“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.”
“(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazonâ€™s Kindle?) Those arenâ€™t books. You canâ€™t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesnâ€™t do that for you. Iâ€™m sorry.”
“One is always half mad when one is shy of people.”

Source : Robert Walser (2014). “Jakob von Gunten”, p.15, New York Review of Books
“Problems are not problems at all, but results that are dissatisfying.”

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