"But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not?"

-- Oliver Sacks

#Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.”
“History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.”
“If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.”
“But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.”
“In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.”
“It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]”
“To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy”
“My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.”

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