"My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest."

-- Mark Vonnegut

#Beautiful Quotes #Mother Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way.”

Source : Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.5, WILLIAM HEINEMANN
“I have enormous respect for anyone who would offer to sacrifice their life to defend my right to live. Is there any greater gift one can give another?”
“From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”
“We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.”
“Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.”
“Clarity comes from action, not thought.”
“You can only die once, so do not die a thousand times worrying about it.”

Source : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.53, Penguin
“If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world.”

Source : Source: cynthiasuelarson.wordpress.com

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