"A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness."

-- Albert Einstein

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“The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.”
“I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.”
“The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.79, Macmillan
“I'm not that professional.”

Source : "Q+A: Andy Richter's Secret to Happiness". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. March 13, 2012.
“Whatever be our individual, social or other interests, we should not forget that we have only one cosmic home, Earth.”
“Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.”

Source : "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Introduction, www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.
“The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.”

Source : "Chloë Sevigny: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'agostino, www.esquire.com. January 2009.
“There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."”

Source : Gordon Willard Allport (1958). “The Nature of Prejudice”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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