"It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature."

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Source : "THE SATURDAY PROFILE; Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'" by Craig S. Smith, www.nytimes.com. January 7, 2006.

Albert Hofmann

#Dangerous Quotes #Contact Quotes

“To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers”

Source : Alain Badiou, Gregory Elliott (2012). “The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings”, p.20, Verso Books
“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.”
“Be kind. Be courteous. Love others and be happy. It's that simple.”
“Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places.”
“It is as hard to take success as it is failure.”
“When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.”
“Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.”

Source : Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.”

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