"When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature ..."

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Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

Marie Bashkirtseff

#Stupidity Quotes #Human Nature Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I don't even own my own name on the internet - somebody else bought it.”
“You have to keep in mind that there's a number of logistical hurdles that they have to jump through in Europe in order to get explosives or guns. So for example, the Villejuif shooter in April 2015 who planned to attack a church: According to French press reports, he was instructed by ISIS to go to a sandwich shop, and the weapons would be waiting for him in a car parked outside. He was just told the make of the car, told to go there, told to pick them up. Putting that kind of attack together, using encrypted communications or other means, is not easy.”
“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”

Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.84, Cambridge University Press
“I would like to direct in the future, but I am in no hurry with that.”
“If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.”
“I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.”
“With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.”
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

Source : Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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