Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
Idries ShahTags: intelligence books scholarship understanding evolution ego superficiality donkeys poses
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
Idries ShahTags: learning essence ego sufi superficiality
The midwest is full of these types of people. The nice enoughs but with a soul made of plastic. Easy to mold, easy to wipe down. The woman's entire music collection is formed from Pottery Barn compilations. Her books shelves are stocked with coffee table crap The Irish in America, Mizzou Football - A History in Pictures, We Remember 911, something dumb with kittens. I knew I needed a pliant friend for my plan, someone I could load up with awful stories about Nick. Someone who would become overly attached to me. Someone who would be easy to manipulate. Who wouldn't think to hard about anything I said because she felt privileged to hear it.
Gillian FlynnTags: superficiality midwest
Maybe superficial is exactly what I want right now. If you don't talk about anything that matters, no one can say anything that'll hurt you--and you don't have to talk about the things that are eating away at you from the inside.
Liz KesslerTags: superficiality
...it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul...
John GeddesTags: wisdom soul superficiality beauty-and-sadness beauty-fleeting
...so now you know my eyes are green - because of my shirt? You never looked into my soul to know how much in me is green...
John GeddesTags: soul green-eyes superficiality
...you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...
John GeddesTags: love hurt grief superficiality
But Sir Alistair’s gaze was different. Those other men had looked at her with lust or speculation or crass curiosity, but they hadn’t been looking at her really. They’d been looking at what she represented to them: physical love or a valuable prize or an object to be gawked at. When Sir Alistair stared at her, well, he was looking at her.
Elizabeth HoytTags: love beauty identity depth superficiality
Now his imagination spun about the hand as about the edge of a vortex; but still he made no effort to draw nearer. He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied. His one terror was to do anything which might efface the sound and impression of her words; his one thought, that he should never again feel quite alone.
Edith WhartonTags: fear love romance superficiality lonelinessiness
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