"Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them."

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Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.31, Grove Press

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“If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him.”
“I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.”
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.”
“Twitter is part of our social fabric”
“She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.”
“Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that weÂ´re the captain of our own sould, and weÂ´re in charge, and itÂ´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, thatÂ´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and thatÂ´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."”
“I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.”
“You know the evil that men do, hell is where the men go. We snatched him by his hands and feet and threw him out the window: "Up, up, and away cause I don't play, clown, Buck, buck, buck, take that with you on the way down." I'm hoping you got springs and wings on your shoes, But you lose, because I got the Ill Street Blues.”

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