Quotes tagged Behaviour

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“Strong people write bad stories.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“The fate of shy people is that all their fears usually come true.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“She is only a subject of their compassion, which is a cowardly form of self-congratulation.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“What men find most endearing in other men are their tragic flaws. That is why alcoholics never run out of friends.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“The primary choice every man has to make is whether he wants to be himself or if he wants peace.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“He does not know why he lives but he lives, and he lives because he does not know why he must die. He will go on this way, doing his little things, enjoying the little victories, adopting morals invented by other people, secretly supporting the ideologies of third-rate men and, at dinner time, quoting the philosophies of the extraordinary whom people like him have never allowed to live in peace.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“He is even happy, and somewhat ashamed of his ordinary everyday happiness, as if fathers of dead sons do not have that crass right.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“This is a world that is locked in the Folly of Two.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“To fool a person, it appears, you have to first fool yourself. That is at the heart of all human influences.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“When you say you are defined by a particular action, you are essentially priming yourself to identify with and justify a certain behaviour.”
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