"You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important."

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Source : Henri Michaux, Robin Magowan (2001). “Ecuador”, p.59, Northwestern University Press

Henri Michaux

#Important Quotes #Admire Quotes

“In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone elseâ€™s mother was staying at home.”
“‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.”
“Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.”
“The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.”
“I'm so loyal, I haven't bathed in weeks!”
“It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.”
“Science is public, not private, knowledge.”
“By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.”

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