"I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me."

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Source : Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006). “Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse”

Philip O Ceallaigh

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“Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault.”

Source : Blake Nelson (2011). “Recovery Road”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”
“Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.”

Source : Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”
“Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.”

Source : Source: tech.blorge.com
“This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.”

Source : Alfred Noyes (1910). “The Enchanted Island: And Other Poems”
“Optimism is the foundation of courage.”
“Markets look a lot less efficient from the banks of the Hudsonthan the banks of the Charles.”
“Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.”

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