"Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.”
“I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.”
“Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.”
“In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.”

Source : Douglas Hofstadter (2008). “Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern”, p.489, Hachette UK
“Let them eat cake.”
“The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.”
“When I wake up in the morning I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning renewed and reborn.”
“Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.”

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