"I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works."

-- Max Ernst

“Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away. They give shelter to whoever cares to come, be it a man, woman, child, or an animal. If you sit under a tree it will protect you from the weather, from the scorching sun as well as from the pouring rain, and it will give you flowers and fruit. Whether a human being enjoys them or a bird tastes of them matters little to the tree; its produce is there for anyone who comes and takes it.”
“He's better than the rest, and his arm sweat smells the best.”
“What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.1, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
“The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.”
“An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.”
“The World Health Organization is now studying Russia's experience, i.e. how we managed to produce tangible results in such a short time”
“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

Source : John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.195, Penguin UK
“I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.”

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