"Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone."

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Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.324

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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“The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.”
“Education is the number one priority.”

Source : "Vincent Kartheiser Talks MAD MEN, Why People Prefer Don Over Pete, Gender Roles in the 60s, Jon Hamm’s Directing Skills, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2013.
“You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.”
“I feel very strongly about letting people know I'm proud of who I am. I want people to know when they hear my songs it's coming from a specific place. The new record is specifically for us trans women: that we can sing about our pain, being ostracized by our lovers, who are ashamed of us in a way. There's no pop music like that for our community. I wanted to contribute in that way.”
“I was a major fan of people in the industry, I was a major movie fan and I was just thrown into it. I was never a gregarious kind of a young man. I was very frightened. It was difficult to divorce myself from myself.”
“The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.”
“The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.”

Source : "Gustav Holst 1874-1934: A Centenary Documentation". Book by Michael Short, 1974.
“Even if I'm doing a show and there's five people in the audience and the sound system is terrible - I mean, it's been a while but I've certainly done those kind of shows where it's just every conceivable thing is against you - you still have music. It's still something that's real whether there's five people in the audience or a hundred thousand people in the audience. And that's always been there for me.”

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