"Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought."

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Source : H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1064, Delphi Classics

H. Rider Haggard

#Thinking Quotes #Helplessness Quotes

“I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.”

Source : "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.
“It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.”
“As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art...”
“Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?”

Source : "Top Gear/ Episode #6.1". Comedy, Talk-Show, May 22, 2005.
“People tend to think they know you when u come into their tv's every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything u here.”
“Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit.”
“The scare quotes burn off like fog.”
“I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become”

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