

“Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion from you, every possible reaction, envy, admiration, pity, irritation, fury, fondness, jealousy, love, disgust. But in the end all human beings became candidates for compassion, all of us, without exception...and if we could recognize this from the beginning, what a saving in pain and grief and misery.”
― Family Matters
― Family Matters

“… I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent or self-confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. […] If I were to see her again, my face needed to be as clean as hers. Before I could find her, I must first find myself.”
― The Zahir
― The Zahir

“Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!”
― Sophie’s World
― Sophie’s World

“You don’t expect flowers to grow in nice clean vacuums.” That was his argument. “They need mould and clay and dung. So does art.”
― Point Counter Point
― Point Counter Point
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