"You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask."

-- Italo Calvino

#Expression Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“One day, our love will conquer this dark circle. That's worth everything to me”
“No. He says when you're dealing with any kids of supernatural beings, Gods and Devils and angels, you tend to think about them like hurricanes or earthquakes, some kind of mindless force of nature. But if they're real, then they have minds. They know your name. So even reading about the Devil tips him off, he knows instantly he's being read about and that you're somebody he may have to deal with. And I'm thinking what you did in Vegas went way, way beyond that." "What 'I' did? What about us? We were both there." "Yeah but I cut my hair since then. They probably think that was a different guy.”
“You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.”
“It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.”
“Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.”
“Fear is something that can really hold us all back from different things in life. It's important to notice what your fears are and try to conquer them.”
“My God, what have we done?”
“I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.”

Source : "Busted? It was like torture". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2006.

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