"I am generally ashamed to walk out in new clothes. And why am I ashamed? Is it because I don't want to embarrass the others who don't have new things? Or perhaps because a new coat makes you stand out, and you seem to be clothes and nothing else."

-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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“You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.”
“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”
“Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.”
“That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.”
“Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn't think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects?”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Who you spend time with is who you become.”
“I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.”
“Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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