"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

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“A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.”
“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Stephen G. Tallentyre, 1906.
“Magic is the cheat codes for the world.”
“A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays bare the rosy limbs of the pinetrees. Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.”
“If you want to be a wise person, you need a Bible.”
“You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.”
“Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.”

Source : "The Fantasy of King Sihanouk" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2012.
“If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.”

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