“People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.”
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Louis-ferdinand Céline 88
French writer 1894–1961Related quotes
“My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.”
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“Better deserve them, and to go without;
Than have them undeserved”
Stanza 93, lines 5–8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto IX
Context: For these vain honours, this false gold, give price
(Unless he have it in himself) to none,
Better deserve them, and to go without;
Than have them undeserved, without doubt.
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“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.”
"Silence"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)