"Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die."

-- Jacques Derrida

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“I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.”
“Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.”
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
“There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.”

Source : Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.195, Dundurn
“I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.”
“I thought "I don't need to reach out to my fans, I don't need to have that dialogue with them." But as a musician, you have to constantly - especially since my music is not on the same level as my acting - you have to connect with your fans. I actually feel like I have developed friendships through Twitter, people that I've worked with I can kind of keep up with them. I've totally turned a corner. I get it. And Instagram.”
“'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'”
“I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.”

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