"Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well - that the individual condition of each is tragic. Each of us is alone: sometimes we escape from solitariness, through love or affection or perhaps creative moments, but those triumphs of life are pools of light we make for ourselves while the edge of the road is black: each of us dies alone."

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Source : "The Two Cultures".

C.P. Snow

#Light Quotes #Creative Quotes #Black Quotes

“For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.”
“And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?”
“People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.”
“Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.”
“Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again,”

Source : "Damien Rice announces new album after an eight-year absence" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2014.
“I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.”

Source : Josiah Warren (1875). “True Civilization: A Subject of Vital and Serious Interest to All People; But Most Immediately to the Men and Women of Labor and Sorrow”, p.106
“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.”
“They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the minds Of young children sublime words Too soon forgotten. God in his time Or out of time will correct this.”

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