"Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool."

-- Sarah Bernhardt

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“There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.”
“We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.”
“Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.”
“There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'”
“What's the use of stories that aren't even true?”
“All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.”

Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”
“When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.”
“As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.”

Source : Emil Nolde, Werner Haftmann (1959). “Emil Nolde”

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