"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."

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Aldous Huxley

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“Y'know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar's eyebrow. But whenit comes to really important things we're as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go 'round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?”
“Every old poem is sacred.”
“[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.”
“There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.”
“Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.”
“If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.”

Source : Giuseppe Garibaldi, Jessie White Mario (1971). “Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: Supplement”
“From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.”
“The world is a mirror representing the divine life...”

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