"I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect"

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Taken Quotes #Rejected Quotes #Understood Quotes

“Marie [Henein]'s adeptness at evisceration - I'm damp with it. She was able to instill in me a feeling of self-loathing. And, um, I guess I gave her that power. But I have to find a way to not feel this bad about something that, in the end, was a moment.”
“It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.”
“Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.”
“Human cloning is coming.”
“You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.”
“Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.”
“We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.”

Source : John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.8, Cambridge University Press
“And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.”

Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.193, Open Road Media

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