"To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity."

-- Jean le Rond d'Alembert

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“I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.”
“Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (1960). “Cats' A. B. C.”
“To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.”
“What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy.”
“As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.”
“The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises . . . the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.”

Source : Interview in "The Detroit News", December 4, 1914.
“When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.”
“Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.”

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