"Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness would rend my heart."

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Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.68, Booklassic

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#Heart Quotes #Church Quotes #Wish Quotes

“So that's why you've got to try, you got to breath and have some fun. Though I'm not paid, I play this game, and I won't stop until I'm done. But what I really want to know is - Are you gonna go my way?”
“I've sort of heard that "it" girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?”
“The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.”
“Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people and peers.”
“The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it's old-fashioned, say it's corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a 'business scent' is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.”
“The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.”

Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.31, Harvard University Press
“I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.”

Source : "Scott Caan Is a Sensitive Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2011.
“One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.”

Source : Source: www.hamptons.com

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