"The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation."

-- Maurice Blanchot

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“An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave; the best and the worst are only approximations to those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself. Who are they that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quantum of congruities and incongruities.”
“Everytime I put on clothes, Iâ€™m creating a picture.”
“I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.”

Source : Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster
“The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselves during the industrial revolution and in the first part of the century when our cities expanded broadly, when we built our housing and we began to depend upon lead as a mainstay of our new industrial culture. We put this stuff in even though we knew it was dangerous, we knew it was going to hurt kids.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“I dont know how to say this but... I LOVE YOU”
“I keep my sisters on speed dial.”
“You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.”
“What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.”

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