"Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist."

-- Knut Hamsun

#Men Quotes #Soul Quotes #Genius Quotes

“Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.”
“Adventure is worthwhile.”
“In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.”
“It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.”
“Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.”
“You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.”

Source : Philip Caputo (1977). “A rumor of war”, Henry Holt & Co
“Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.”

Source : Georg Simmel, Otthein Rammstedt (2008). “Gesamtausgabe”
“One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.”

Source : "Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World". Book by M. Barry Dumas, p. 231, 2012.

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