"Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is."

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Source : Zora Neale Hurston (1939). “Moses: Man of the Mountain”

Zora Neale Hurston

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“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”
“Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.”

Source : Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.73
“I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.”
“Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.”

Source : David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.65, Basic Books
“We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.”
“Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.”
“Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting -or he'll come along and nibble your brain.”

Source : "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.
“Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.”

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