"No documents, no person."

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

#Persons Quotes

“Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.”
“Maybe I don't know what love is, but it isn't this.”

Source : Song: Blinded, Album: Passenger, 1999
“A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.”
“Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.”

Source : "General System Theory". Book by Ludwig von Bertalanffy. Chapter 3: "Some System Concepts in Elementary Mathematical Consideration", p. 69, 1968.
“In mercy, God has called you and saved, healed, blessed and delivered you.”
“Woman is at once apple and serpent.”
“Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.”
“I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.”

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