"If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001."

-- Martin J. Whitman

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“I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never thought that I was conjuring them by myself, and I was always grateful they would come and visit... They've always been very much alive. They don't have a physical body like we do but there seems to be an awareness.”
“I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.”
“But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.”
“Women are raped and coerced into sex.”

Source : "Reflections on Sex Equality under Law". "The Yale Law Journal", 1991.
“A Race car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samotracia”
“I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.”
“Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very serious levels of depression. Physical exercise and self-help books based on CBT can also be useful, either alone or in combination with therapy. Reducing social and economic inequality would also reduce the incidence of depression.”
“All happiness is a form of innocence.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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