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“The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.”
Source : "The Outsider". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 231, 1956.
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“What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.”
Source : FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 15, 2013
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“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
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“Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.”
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“Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.”
Source : "Knowledge of Hell (2008)". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.
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“You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.”
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“Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.”
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“Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.”