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Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#capacity #evil #good #let us #man

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain. ↗

— Elena Ferrante

#divorce #elena-ferrante #love #pain #the-days-of-abandonment

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#job #love #nobody #successful #work

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#experience #forces #generally #maximum #means

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#between #brutal #decadence #difference #our

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#bring #chore #chosen #course #glory

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#cannot #copy #copying #enter #good

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#completely #everything #happens #i #interpretations

I have never sought the reason why I write. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#i write #never #reason #sought #why

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#carrying #dead #france #heard #how