"Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity."

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Source : Hugh MacLennan (1975). “The watch that ends the night: a novel”, Macmillan of Canada, 1975

Hugh MacLennan

#Self Quotes #Captivity Quotes #Burden Quotes

“You replaced me with a shaved poodle?â€ â€œHeâ€™s got mad skills.â€ Derekâ€™s eyebrows crept up. â€œHe can vomit and urinate at the same time and he doesnâ€™t make fun of my car.”
“In football, if you don't score a goal then you cannot win.”
“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”
“You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!”
“What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.”
“As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.”
“We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.”
“There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.”

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