"Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

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“It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.”
“It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"”
“Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient association with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air.”

Source : David Abram (1996). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World”, Pantheon
“Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.”
“Take what happened to me in Bali. I planned on going to Ubud, then met a man on an airplane who told me it was too touristy. He gave me an address on the other side of the island, which turned out to be a palace where I lived for four years.”
“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.”
“My meeting you was no coincidence. It's more than that!”
“The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.”

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