"Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks."

-- Pat Barker

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“A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.”
“Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses. They belong to the study of the mind's morbid anatomy, and ought to be accurately labelled. Voltaire will still be a wit, notwithstanding he is a scoffer; and we may admire the brilliant spots and eyes of the viper, if we acknowledge its venom and call it a reptile.”
“Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.”
“We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.”
“I can no longer seduce because I love my husband ... I don't want to hurt him. I am no longer a man-eater.”

Source : "The Sarkozys: One Year Of L’Amour". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2009.
“I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.”

Source : George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.82, Penguin
“Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.”
“The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.”

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