"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch."

-- J. B. Priestley

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“We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.”
“Life is an incurable disease.”

Source : "To Dr. Scarborough" l. 111 (1656)
“I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.”
“As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.”
“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”

Source : "Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, January 12, 1969.
“And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”
“Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that is not destroyed by illness but a body that is consumed by its own long burning fire.”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org

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