"I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm."

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Jean-Paul Sartre

#Humble Quotes #Modesty Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“She wasn't looking her best; her hair was coming down, for she had shed hairpins as she'd run, and her face lacked powder and lipstick. She looked hot and tired and surprisingly happy. He thought that he had never seen anyone quite as beautiful, so absolutely necessary to his happiness. It wasn't the first time he had fallen in love, but he knew that this was the last.”

Source : "Only by Chance".
“I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.”
“The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.”
“But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever....”
“Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.”
“I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way. ---Yasu”
“What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.”
“Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.”

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