"Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!"

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Source : Alfred de Musset, David Sices (1994). “Comedies & proverbs”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Alfred de Musset

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“Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.”

Source : Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
“Life is what happens in-between the mother and the sister”
“Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.”
“The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.”
“If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.”
“When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.”
“I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”
“You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.”

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