"Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices."

-- Remy de Gourmont

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“I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.”
“The impossible becomes possible if only your mind believes it.”
“We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
“It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of the conclusion depends not only on the fact that it was reached but on how hard the theorist had to tweak the model to get there.”
“You can't escape from what you are.”

Source : "Vincent Cassel: 'You can't escape from what you are'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 04, 2012.
“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

Source : "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.
“Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.”

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