"With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution."

-- Kate Millett

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“I don’t want to explain to somebody what pollen is. That is the secret and the beauty and the power and the potential of all this.”
“Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.”
“Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.”
“The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.”
“It's the chauffeur's outfit from hell, right down to the alligator shoes. I was wearing these alligator shoes and this very interesting and haunting chauffeur's outfit, but what really did it for me was the hat. And then, when I eventually get my eye taken out, the gold eye really brought it home for me.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.”
“Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.”

Source : "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.
“Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.”

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