"The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small."

-- Giacomo Leopardi

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“Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words and thoughts: daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. It is these, like the blinding colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the person.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 46), 1895.
“Scary movies scare me. The Exorcist is really scary.”
“While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.”
“The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like me in some ways.”
“A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.”

Source : "Pauley: 'I was suffering from bipolar disorder'". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. August 31, 2004.
“You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.”
“They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.”
“If I was going to go out tonight, I was going to go out fighting. Or screaming in agony. Either way.”

Source : Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.346, St. Martin's Press

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