"There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?"

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Source : Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult

#Pain Quotes #Believe Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real”
“A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.”
“On domestic policy, one of the major stories in American politics has been the growing ideological and political self-confidence of the Democratic Party, and the growing ideological and political pessimism of the Republican Party.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Sleep always eluded the pursuer.”

Source : Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Tamarind Seed”, p.8, Open Road Media
“I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.”

Source : "Interrogating the Creators of 'Homeland'". Interview with Hamed Aleaziz, www.motherjones.com. November 4, 2011.
“I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseballâ€™s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himselfâ€¦Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game.”
“Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.”
“My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word....”

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