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Steven’s Quotes

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: education, schooling, university

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“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: crudeness, grace, perspicacity, violence, writing

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“Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

tags: face, honesty, mask, people

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“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: courage, cynical, danger, life

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“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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