Azana Quotes & Sayings

During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus did suffer nostalgia, and remembered almost nothing.
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For four long books of the Odyssey he had retraced in detail his adventures before the dazzled Phaeacians. But in Ithaca he was not a stranger, he was one of their own, so it never occurred to anyone to say, 'Tell us! — Milan Kundera

You want to go to work with people you like and where everyone is having fun. — Megan Fox

I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless, you have to learn the path of surrender. You have to learn how to melt into existence, how to become one with the rivers and the mountains and the clouds, how to feel affinity, attunement, at-onement. And then slowly, slowly you become a host. The day you are a host, the Guest comes. — Rajneesh

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal. — Edmund Burke

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off. — Samuel Richardson

What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong? — Manuel Azana

That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along. — Edwin Lefevre

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics. — Mason Cooley

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over. — Nate Silver

Now that is the real thing, the straight goods from the mass unconscious, friend; that little girl is a witch. There's just no place for her to function in this society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on The Bionic Man and all those Star Trek reruns. — William Gibson

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time. — Alain De Botton