“Un paraíso conseguido sin esfuerzo no entusiasma al creyente.”— Pío Baroja Related Quotes “It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.”— J.M. Barrie “–perhaps a soul is what you have spent your life making, not a piece of metaphysical equipment shipped ready-made from the factory, another myth like original sin, which you were outfitted with at birth and could somehow lose, like men high and low sometimes lost their humanity–”— Bob Shacochis “If each of us were to confess his most secret desire the one that inspires all his plans all his actions he would say: “I want to be praised.””— E. M. Cioran