"The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities."

-- Jordan Peterson

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“Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection, and has been for some years now. Sales haven't ever stopped, so to talk about rediscovering him would suggest that he isn't read anymore and that's not true.”
“It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body”
“If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one â€” pure, dure, sÃ»re, [Pure, hard, certain] â€” in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.”
“People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the whole world is a crime scene: People eat space with their bodies; they are rain decayers; the wind is slaughtered when they move. A retaliation is probably coming. Should a person cease to move, she would cease to kill the sky, and the world might begin to recover.”

Source : Ben Marcus (2007). “Notable American Women: A Novel”, p.46, Vintage
“My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.”
“A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.”
“People call what we do "stretch music." This is our style, and one of the newer, in vogue ways of playing creative, improvised music. It really grew out of me trying to address something that I saw in my everyday life in my neighborhood - trying to develop that and refine that and excavate exactly what that was in a way that, when I communicated it, it was palpable and easily read. That started really early. Why it started was from something that I was really angry about.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.”

Source : Ellen Key (2016). “The education of the child”, p.20, Ellen Key

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