"Our true passions are selfish."

-- Stendhal

#Selfish Quotes #Passion Quotes

“Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out whatâ€™s not supposed to be there.”
“When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.”
“On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.”

Source : Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.
“The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.”
“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”
“Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice.”
“I couldn't see tying myself down with a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.”
“There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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