Eurespal Quotes

#1. Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.

Lundy Bancroft

#2. India's head ached. Insomnia was still her most attentive, cruelest lover, demanding and possessing her selfishly whenever it chose to do so. Light-heartedness was beyond her today. A man of middling quality was trying to marry her, and there was something wrong with her father's voice on the phone.

Salman Rushdie

#3. My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming demonstrates that processing natural materials on an industrial scale is a suicidal practice.

David David Katzman

#4. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.

Muriel Barbery

#5. Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.

Cormac McCarthy

#6. I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

Umberto Eco

#7. Illusory attachment (moha) is indeed what will keep on biting you until the point of your demise!

Dada Bhagwan

#8. The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.

Chanakya