Proteze Za Quotes & Sayings

The beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or London) seen against the architectural vestiges of a beautiful past. — Susan Sontag

The finger-biter's feelings for her ex-husband were a bonsai tree - they may have started in something real, but she'd tended them so closely and for so long they were now purely decorative. — Elizabeth McCracken

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. — John Green

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories. — Taylor Swift

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195 — Robert Harris

Adversity Isn't to Be Avoided — Miles Anthony Smith

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
— Clarice Lispector

One: I am a Welshman; two: I am a drunkard; three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women. — Dylan Thomas

He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; — Niccolo Machiavelli

Like Pascal, Nietzsche, and Simone Weil, Kierkegaard is one of those writers whom it is very difficult to estimate justly. When one reads them for the first time, one is bowled over by their originality . . . and by the sharpness of their insights. . . . But with successive readings one's doubts grow, one begins to react against their overemphasis on one aspect of the truth at the expense of all the others, and one's first enthusiasm may all too easily turn to an equally exaggerated aversion. Of all such writers, one might say that one cannot imagine them as children. The more we read them, the more we become aware that something has gone badly wrong with their affective life; . . . it is not only impossible to imagine one of them as a happy husband or wife, it is impossible to imagine their having a single intimate friend to whom they could open their hearts. — W. H. Auden

If you're down to 6% body fat, which I've done before, you burn out really quickly. Like, in a couple hours, you're pretty much done, and then you're useless. — Daniel Wu

I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear? — Alice Meynell

Exaggeration is my only reality. — Diana Vreeland

The bum was justified in his actions because he was homeless and poor. He was allowed to beg for money because the circumstances made it acceptable. Society had shunned him and he was owed that much. — Karina Halle