"Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature."

-- John Dryden

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“Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.”
“With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.”
“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”

Source : Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.56, Vintage
“I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.”
“A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.”
“History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”
“We won't make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker, as a very wise man once said. That applies to the economy as well. If Germany were less competitive, the euro area as a whole would lose, because less could be produced then.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.”

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