"In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for instance in an Indian myth, this prime matter is indicated as a solution, out of which the solid earth crystallized out."

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Source : Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”

Svante Arrhenius

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“I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better....but you're lazier.”
“Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simply to give up. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to me to be the voice of innocence.”
“You don't have to think exactly like me. When people go, "I don't agree with everything you say," you know what, if you agree with everything anyone says, you're an idiot.”
“I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.”
“I don't like sleeping in a different place every night, but I do like meeting new people.”

Source : Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.
“One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”
“Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you”
“Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure.”

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