"Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos."

-- Gaston Bachelard

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“It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.”
“Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.”
“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)”
“I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.”
“I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.”
“In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.”
“Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.”
“Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.”

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