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She felt attracted by their weakness as by vertigo. She felt attracted by it because she felt weak herself. Again she began to feel jealous and again her hands shook. When Tomas noticed it, he did what he usually did: he took her hands in his and tried to calm them by pressing hard. She tore them away from him."What's the matter?" he asked."Nothing."What do you want me to do for you?"I want you to be old. Ten years older. Twenty years older!"What she meant was: I want you to be weak. As weak... Milan Kundera
You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage. Paul Thomas Anderson
Abraham Maslow quote: "What a man can be, he must be. This need we call..."
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. Abraham Maslow
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse..."
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mikhail Baryshnikov quote: "I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but..."
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "A dull animal rage boiled within him."
A dull animal rage boiled within him. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Susan Rice quote: "I am a direct person."
I am a direct person. Susan Rice
Joseph Barber Lightfoot quote: "God did not give you the spirit of cowardice."
God did not give you the spirit of cowardice. Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father) Alexander Dumas
I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot. Emma Bunton
Alison Bechdel quote: "The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New..."
The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating. Alison Bechdel
Annie Dillard quote: "We are here to witness the creation and to abet it."
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. Annie Dillard
I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. Simon Cameron
Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don't? I picture the gods, diddling around on Olympus, wallowing in the nectar and ambrosia and the aroma of burning bones and fat, mischievous as a pack of ten-year-olds with a sick cat to play with and a lot of time on their hands. 'Which prayer shall we answer today?' they ask one another. 'Let's cast the dice! Hope for this one, despair for that one, and while we're at it, let's destroy the life of that... Margaret Atwood
James Joyce quote: "He had felt proud and happy then, happy that she was his,..."
He had felt proud and happy then, happy that she was his, proud of her grace and wifely carriage. James Joyce