#detach

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. ↗

— John le Carre

#become #cheat #childhood #detachment #ever

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#detachment #heart #heartbreak #birth

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#conscious #detached #feelings #impossible #informed

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#art #cause #classes #detached #fact

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#critically #detachment #development #economy #imagined

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#detached #disturbing #got #head #i

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#difficult #feel #grief #i #i feel