Geoff Dyer Quotes
I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'
