"one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than that. Ah! I am very cowardly, and under the blow of such a terror I am ready to believe in priests."

-- Marie Bashkirtseff

#Believe Quotes #Blow Quotes #Life And Death Quotes

“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
“No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.”
“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”

Source : Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.235
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