"Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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“If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.”
“I'm kind of inspired by just all different kinds of music.”
“Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.”

Source : Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.296, The Overlook Press
“The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”
“the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.”
“I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”
“Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.”

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