"Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body"

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Source : Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.3, Courier Corporation

Walter de La Mare

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“Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.”
“Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.”
“The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.”
“Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point.”
“Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
“I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.”
“Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.”
“The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.”

Source : Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.155, Routledge

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