"When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes."

-- Alain de Botton

#World Quotes #Proust Quotes #Scene Quotes

“The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.”

Source : John Burdett (2012). “Bangkok Haunts”, p.156, Hachette UK
“In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.”

Source : Arthur Alphonse Ekirch (1966). “Ideas, ideals, and American diplomacy: a history of their growth and interaction”
“When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James' Park. I've lived my dream and I realise how lucky I've been to have done that.”
“When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.”
“In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.”
“Every new time will give its law.”
“and itâ€™s all kind of moving and sweet except that youâ€™re not completely thereâ€”a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking,”
“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

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