"If you have reasons to love someone, you donâ€™t love them."

-- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

“When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.”
“Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!”
“A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.”
“Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.”
“As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.”
“I took a lot from friends, but also me.”

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“Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.”
“The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.”

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