"Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor."

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Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.277, Profile Books

Elfriede Jelinek

#Ignorant Quotes #Desire Quotes #Way Quotes

“The dream is not a map.Â A poem is not the territory.Â The dreamer reclines in a barbershopÂ carpeted with Afro turf.Â In the dark some soul yells.Â It hurts to walk barefootÂ on cowrie shells.”
“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.129, Pan Macmillan
“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.”
“So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.”

Source : Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.beliefnet.com. June 12, 2010.
“A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ***** that carries gold and eats thistles.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitement, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring. The greater the love; the greater the tragedy when it is over”
“I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.”
“Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.”

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