"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us."

-- Khalil Gibran

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“Straight is the way to Acheron, Whether the spirit's race is run From Athens or from Meroe: Weep not, far from home to die; The wind doth blow in every sky That wafts us to that doleful sea.”

Source : John Addington Symonds (1871). “Miscellanies”, p.412
“I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.”

Source : "PD James, Queen of Detective Fiction: Interview". Interview With Jake Kerridge, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 26, 2009.
“I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.”
“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.”
“My son Hannibal will be a great general, because of all my soldiers he best knows how to obey.”
“When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.”
“Soul music is timeless.”
“A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.”

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