"The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject which could be discussed by sentient beings."

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Source : Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.24, Sentient Publications

Wei Wu Wei

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“But the cinephile is â€¦ a neurotic! (Thatâ€™s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and itâ€™s because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, â€œWhen you love life, you go to the movies,â€ itâ€™s false! Itâ€™s exactly the opposite: when you donâ€™t love life, or when life doesnâ€™t give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.”
“Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.”
“The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.”

Source : "'Twilight' Tuesday: Nikki Reed Hopes to Make Us Understand What's Beneath Rosalie's Beautiful, Hard Exterior". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. July 22, 2008.
“In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.”
“There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.”

Source : "Shevchenko want to end career on a high". edition.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.
“As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born â€“ and particularly bad luck it is.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.7, Oxford University Press
“It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.”
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”

Source : YouTube Channel "l2runlimited"/"Lloyd Alexander (part 2 of 3)", www.youtube.com. May 07, 2008.

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