"Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow."

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Thomas Huxley

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“Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes us want to perceive it again”

Source : Étienne Gilson (1976). “The arts of the beautiful”, Greenwood Publishing Group
“All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.”
“I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.”

Source : "The Heidi chronicles and other plays". Book by Wendy Wasserstein, November 18, 1988.
“Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.”
“Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'”
“I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.”

Source : Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House
“While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.”
“The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.”

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