"I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches..Thereâ€™s no way to tell anyone who hasnâ€™t been through it, thereâ€™s no way to explain it to anyone who hasnâ€™t tasted it . To keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day, so that I radiate sunshine"

-- Edie Sedgwick

#Sunshine Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Drug Quotes

“I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.”
“I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.”
“Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it”
“If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.”
“Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last”
“The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, ... Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, CÃ©sar Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. ... The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.”

Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 159, 1927.
“"Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.”
“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

Source : Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.12, Penguin

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