Boltanski Holocaust Quotes

#1. Saying of the Prophet
Obligation to Learn
The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

Idries Shah

#2. Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.

Alfred Austin

#3. I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

Gary Hume

#4. I wouldn't want to change myself for the whole world

Cher Lloyd

#5. When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.

Christian Boltanski

#6. Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

Plotinus

#7. Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

Andy Mulcahy

#8. Yeah, Vanessa. I also call her Red, Viper, Princess, and behind her back, Woman-who's-driving-me-fucking-insane.

Gina L. Maxwell

#9. The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

C.S. Lewis

#10. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.

Donna Tartt

#11. Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.

Shannon L. Alder