"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."

-- August Strindberg

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“I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.”

Source : "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.
“Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.”
“Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.”
“You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, youâ€™ve found life. Iâ€™m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are â€˜yoursâ€™ and which are â€˜mine.â€™ Itâ€™s past sorting out.”

Source : Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.140, Penguin
“I feel like I'm the most competitive driver in the motorhome lot. No matter what it is - whether we're racing, playing another sport or deciding who can run to that sign and back faster - I feel like I'm the most competitive person alive.”

Source : Source: www.sbnation.com
“I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.”
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.”
“One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Dec 18, 2011

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