Deborah Feldman quotes
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“If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made me more fearful, and I would later dip cautiously into the outside world, never allowing myself to be submerged completely, and always jerking back into the familiarity of my own life when my senses were overwhelmed. For years I would stand with a foot in each sphere, drawn to the exotic universe that lay on the other side of the portal, wrenched back by the warnings that sounded like alarm bells in my mind.”
-- Deborah FeldmanSource : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
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“As far as I can remember, I have always wanted everything from life, everything it can possibly give me. This desire separates me from people who are willing to settle for less. I cannot even comprehend how people's desires can be small, ambitions narrow and limited, when the possibilities are endless”
-- Deborah FeldmanSource : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
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“I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.”
-- Deborah FeldmanSource : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
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“If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.”
-- Deborah FeldmanSource : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
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“I can't bear the thought of living an entire lifetime on this planet and not getting to do all the things I dream of doing, simply because they aren't allowed. I don't think it will ever be enough, this version of freedom, until it is all-inclusive. I don't think I can be happy unless I'm truly independent.”
-- Deborah FeldmanSource : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.229, Simon and Schuster
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“Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical failings honestly according to a secular code of right and wrong.”
-- Deborah FeldmanSource : Deborah Feldman (2014). “Exodus: A Memoir”, p.75, Penguin
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“I am hungry for power, but not to lord over others; only to own myself.”
-- Deborah FeldmanSource : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
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“I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library—subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps—and try to memorize them. I’m afraid of getting lost; no, I’m afraid of sinking into the city as in a quicksand, afraid of getting sucked into something I can never escape.”
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“The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.”
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“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
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“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.”
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“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”
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“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
Source : Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.135, Penguin
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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