Showing posts with label 1998. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1998. Show all posts

Beauty, Iain Pears


The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind. (Marco)

Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998)

악마는 인류를 타락시키기 위해 아름다운 모습으로 변할 수 있습니다.

― 이언 피어스 (Iain Pears), 옥스퍼드의 4증인 (An Instance of the Fingerpost)

Mystery, Jorge Luis Borges

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

- Jorge Luis Borges, "Unworthy", In Praise of Darkness (1969), tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mystery

Happiness, Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi, as quoted in Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids (1998) by Joseph A. Michelli, p. 88.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Happiness