"Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine."

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John Milton

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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.
“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
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
“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.”
“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.
“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.”
“Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.”
“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.”

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