"People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if thereâ€™s room."

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Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.227, Spiegel & Grau

Steve Toltz

#People Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Secret Quotes

“I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.”
“Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.”
“All it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a...”
“The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.”
“Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?”
“Truth is above all, but higher still is true living.”

Source : Kirpal Singh (1988). “The teachings of Kirpal Singh”
“The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.”
“Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.”

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