"The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught."

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Ivan Illich

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“The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.”
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing...”

Source : Thomas Merton (2009). “Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings”, p.8, Harper Collins
“If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.”
“We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.”
“Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides...A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.”
“I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.”
“When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about”
“...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.”

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