"I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'"

-- Deborah Levy

#Book Quotes #Home Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.”

Source : Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (1996). “Crisis of democratization”
“The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.”

Source : Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.
“Between the ages of 30 and 40 was the time when both my spirit and body were young and powerful and I could do anything!”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.”
“I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.”
“It's dangerous to have feelings when you don't have any money.”
“Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion....”
“Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference in your - and likely in others' lives as well. Yes is what keeps us all young. It's a tiny word that can do big things. Say it often.”

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