"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."

-- Francis Picabia

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“No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.”

Source : H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.154, e-artnow
“There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.”
“When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.”

Source : Christopher Pike (2001). “Witch”, p.196, Simon and Schuster
“Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.”
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is a satisfier, not a motivator... Recognition is. That's why we do what we do... Recognition is critical to self-esteem. Without it, we feel undervalued, even insignificant. Money is nice, sure. But once you establish a basis of monetary rewards, without the accompanying verbal and social affirmation, the employee will quickly become disgruntled and ask for more. Eventually, more will never be enough.”

Source : Letter to his class at Radcliffe College, 6 Apr. 1896, in Letters (1920) vol. 2, p. 33
“Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.”
“I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books
“The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad.”

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