"My wound existed before me; I was born to embody it."

-- JoÃ« Bousquet

#Born Quotes #Wounds Quotes

“My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile Iâ€™ve ever unleashed in my entire life. I didnâ€™t even know my face could do this. Itâ€™s like there were hidden zippers in my cheeks. Jesus. This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want more.”
“We never thought we were. That's the important part.”
“Becoming is superior to being.”

Source : Paul Klee, Will Grohmann (1985). “Paul Klee”, Harry N. Abrams
“If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort of stuff so it can be done. But if you really start with love your enemies, and if you look at the tradition of the first Christian centuries, nobody ever seems to suggest well if they come after us to persecute us, is it alright to kill a few? Defensively, of course.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.”
“You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.”
“You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earthâ€”and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earthâ€”and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.”
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.”

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