Alfred Dreyfus quotes

Alfred Dreyfus quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis”
-- Alfred Dreyfus

#House Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“I sing around the house, in the shower”
“I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!”
“May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, A. R. Waller (2014). “Poems”, p.88, Cambridge University Press
“He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.”
“When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.”
“The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.”
“I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.108, Granta Books
“Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.”
“The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.”
“Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.”

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