"The one you are looking for is the one who is looking."

-- Francis of Assisi

“I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror . . . Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.”

Source : "Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations". Book by Bruno Monsaingeon, 2001.
“I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.”
“I want you to be happy...to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.”
“I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!”
“If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property”
“Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.”
“I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.”

Source : "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.

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