"Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing."

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

W.N.P. Barbellion

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“Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.”
“Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.”
“But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, 'deficit-financed government spending,' and 'the animal spirits of the spendthrift' in the service of boosting 'consumption demand'... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?”
“By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of indiscernibles, I have thereby defended the bundle theory from a traditional objection to it.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.”
“You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. He had it. When you hear a cat do a thing like that, you got to go along with him. I think I heard Coltrane before I really got close to Miles [Davis]. Miles had a tricky way of playing his horn that I didn't understand as much as I did Coltrane. I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing...”

Source : Downbeat magazine Interview, 1961.
“We might as well expect to grow trees from leaves as hope to build up a civilization or a manhood without taking into consideration our women and the home life made by them Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.”

Source : "The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters".
“I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.”

Source : "Full transcript: Egypt PM Hisham Qandil interview". Interview with Khaled Ezz El-Arab, www.bbc.co.uk. September 15, 2012.

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