"You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know."

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Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.127, Macmillan

Tatiana de Rosnay

#Sometimes Quotes #Boxes Quotes

“Arsenal are streets ahead of everyone in this league and Manchester United are up there with them.”
“Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.”
“For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.”
“We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time.”
“Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who lost this game; now it is the planet.”

Source : Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.124, Canongate Books
“[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.”
“The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.”
“Dysmorphia is when someone looks in the mirror, and sees something else. While I studied my own whatever I was, I decided that maybe everyone has at least a touch of dysmorphia; maybe it's impossible for anyone to ever truly know what they look like.”

Source : Paul Rudnick (2013). “Gorgeous”, p.28, Scholastic Inc.

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