"Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them."

-- Raoul Vaneigem

#Giving Up Quotes #Real Quotes #People Quotes

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”

Source : Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon”
“Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good”

Source : Ludwig Bemelmans (1952). “The happy place”
“New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.”
“One of the great reasons, I am sure, why [David O.] McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old age has been the fact that as a young man he developed habits of retiring to bed early, arising early, generally before sun up, when his mind was clear and his body vigorous, to do the day's work.”
“Make no compromise in quality.”
“I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.”

Source : "Howard Stern and the Satellite Wars". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.wired.com. March 01, 2005.
“A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.”
“It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.”

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