"Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?"

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Source : Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.120

Emily Eden

#Keeping Secrets Quotes #Fool Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.”
“I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.”
“Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity?”

Source : "When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories". Book by Bernestine Singley, harvardmagazine.com. 2002.
“Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him, I do not know if he has given me an immortal soul, but only one that was to last me as long as my body lasted. I do not know if when the last page of my book is closed, that will be the end of me.”
“I need to observe the people, and I think I need to observe myself.”
“The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.”
“I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.”
“I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ.”

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