"Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Art Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Mind Quotes

“We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.”
“I'm not a fan of chrome wheels. I sort of like brushed, brushed steel, more European style.”
“It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine,”
“I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.”
“The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.”

Source : Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of Travel”, p.465
“The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes”
“The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.”
“A man who is a man goes on until he can go no furtherâ€”and then goes twice as far.”

Source : Steve Sheinkin (2012). “Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon”, p.57, Macmillan

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