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“I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.”
Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.51, New Directions Publishing
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“I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean”
Source : "Song: "What I Am" ("Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars")". 1988.
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“Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.”
Source : Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.103, Рипол Классик
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“I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.”
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“Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.”
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“In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.”
Source : Clark Ashton Smith, “The Unremembered”
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“The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.”
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“Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.”
