"The excess of pleasure is pain"

-- Almeida Garrett

#Pain Quotes #Excess Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.”

Source : Don Winslow (2012). “The Kings of Cool: A Prequel to Savages”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
“An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.”
“I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.”
“It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or the golden suffusions of autumn.”
“I think Frank Mir was 100 percent underestimated and I'm really happy to see the result because I think we needed it in the heavyweight division.”
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit.”
“If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.”
“Everything revolves around the fork.”

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