"Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world."

-- Alexander Pushkin

#Ideas Quotes #Two Quotes #Together Quotes

“The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.”

Source : Jacques Lacan (2013). “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan”, p.321, Routledge
“For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.”
“It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.”

Source : Diary entry for November 14, 1878. "Cosima Wagner's Diaries: An Abridgment". Book edited by Geoffrey Skelton, 1994.
“Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.”

Source : Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.382, Simon and Schuster
“One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.”
“When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did not get stage fright and I actually enjoyed talking to people of all ages.”

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“It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.”
“Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.”

Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.184, Open Road Media

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