Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. — Doris Lessing
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. — Doris Lessing
In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. — Doris Lessing
It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. — Doris Lessing
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. — Doris Lessing
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. — Doris Lessing
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing