"Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life."

-- Ludwig Boltzmann

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“The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.”

Source : George Mikes (1973). “How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils”, Penguin UK
“Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.”
“She just happened to feel like it. Wasnâ€™t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?”
“Your Day Is Your Life”
“It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life, I would be rewarded after death. Those beliefs, sincerely held, can get a human being through many hard times.”
“I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through,”
“There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.”

Source : Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr
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