"It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes."

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Source : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Dian Fossey

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“It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.”
“Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way”
“Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.”

Source : "The Gathas". Book by Zoroaster. Translation by Dinshaw Jamshedji Irani, in K. D. Irani, Rabindranath Tagore, p.96, Yasna 53, 6, 1999.
“I've reached a certain age where I love to work. I could just live here [at the studio].”
“In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.”
“Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.”

Source : "Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.
“If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies.”

Source : "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.
“The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.”

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