"Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language."

-- Michael Ondaatje

#Long Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Art is like an avalanche being poured down your throat. You know it's going to crack, eventually it's going to go out of fashion. I wish there was much less happening. I wish there were fewer art dealers. I wish there were fewer auctions. I wish there were just two auctions a year.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.”
“He pus his lips next to my ear and says, â€œYou look good, Tris.”
“[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.35, Macmillan
“I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.”
“Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.”
“Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.”
“I am not sorry for my crime.”

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