"A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time."

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Source : Sybille Bedford (1990). “As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice”, Trafalgar Square

Sybille Bedford

#Sea Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Ego Quotes

“Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.”
“I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.”
“How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.”
“When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.”
“A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.”
“I grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area.”

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“We all have a purpose in life and I believe this being an activist is mine, so that's one of my driving forces. The second driving force is knowing that I'm actually making a difference to people's lives. Knowing that women are saying that their young daughters are looking up to me now, knowing that I've helped someone to not commit suicide. Getting messages like that are very powerful.”

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“I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.”

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