"We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes."

“Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.”

“I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.”

“Nobody should have to clean up what goes on around the base of most toilets.”

“Art is the highest form of hope.”

Source : Gerhard Richter, Christine Mehring, Jeanne Anne Nugent, Jon L. Seydl (2010). “Gerhard Richter: Early Work, 1951-1972”, p.161, Getty Publications

“While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.”

“All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God”

Source : Edwin Louis Cole (1992). “On becoming a--real man”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

“Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.58, Bantam

“For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the "lie," because when you look closer, every "lie" - and I say that with quotation marks - can be much more complicated. Because that is what fiction is: it's probably the least important thing in the world. It's rich, but it is put-on, it passes the time. It borrows from the world, but it does not invent it.”

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