"The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that canâ€™t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I donâ€™t know anything like enough yet; that I havenâ€™t understood enough; that I canâ€™t know enough; that Iâ€™m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldnâ€™t have it any other way."

-- Christopher Hitchens

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“I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.”

Source : Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.378, Knopf
“We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.”

Source : Jurgen Ruesch, Gregory Bateson (2006). “Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry”, p.238, Transaction Publishers
“Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.”

Source : David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr
“I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.”
“It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.”
“You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.”
“I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.”
“Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?”

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