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Profound Quotes

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Stendhal
“The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.”
Stendhal, Love

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable; some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana


Andrea Cremer
“I wish there was some personal marker of time, so we didn't have to rely upon days and weeks and months and years. Because each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.
Insightful, p.194”
Andrea Cremer, Invisibility

Yann Martel
“There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all.”
Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal

Eudora Welty
“My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to remain at his private remove. I wished to be, not effaced, but invisible - actually a profound position. Perspective, the line of vision, the frame of vision - these set a distance.”
Eudora Welty, On Writing