"With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it.."

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Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.21, Penguin UK

Patrick SÃ¼skind

#Eye Quotes #Swamps Quotes #Danger Quotes

“I love to work with young kids.”
“In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.”
“There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”
“To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.”
“There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine.”
“In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.”
“It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love -- I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again.”
“Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving.”

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