"It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry."

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Source : "The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol, 1836.

Nikolai Gogol

#Glasses Quotes #Use Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Our journey into consciousness of wealth begins with the realization that we have already arrived!”
“I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did,”
“If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.”
“Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.”
“The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.”
“The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages give or take a few mutations are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years; or, in other words, ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes. Each individual organism should be seen as a temporary vehicle, in which DNA messages spend a tiny fraction of their geological lifetimes.”
“I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.”
“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”

Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.287, Bantam

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