"It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art."

-- Ivan Turgenev

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“I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.”
“If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.”
“When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.”
“Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,' then we are in full flight from ourselves. I even wonder whether religion itself and the whole idea of a god is produced by our self-disgust.”
“Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, you are not forgotten. No matter how dark your days may seem, no matter how insignificant you may feel, no matter how overshadowed you think you may be, your Heavenly Father has not forgotten you. In fact, He loves you with an infinite love.”
“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”
“In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry.”

Source : "Essai sur le théorie des proportions chimiques" by Jons Jacob Berzelius (1819) translated in Henry M. Leicester and Herbert S. Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry 1400-1900" (p. 260), 1952.
“I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.”

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