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“Geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
Source : Claire Messud (2015). “The Emperor's Children: Picador Classic”, p.288, Pan Macmillan
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“Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.”
Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”
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“We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.”
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“I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!”
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“What I do is see the ball, hit the ball.”
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“Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don't care, and you don't care that you don't care.”
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“As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.”
Source : Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.133, AK Press
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“I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.”
Source : 'Pathology of Colours' (1968)