"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

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Source : Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.24, Vintage

Thomas Mann

#Beauty Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "could have, might have, should have,and might have been." Create yourself and live the story of your own unique life.”
“Don't have too much story for the time you have.”
“When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.”
“Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.”
“This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.”
“America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. ... Something's eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many. ... Maybe it'll be one more round of "reasonable gun control" or one more episode of burning children to death to save them from "child abuse." Whatever, something will snap.”

Source : "Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do til the Revolution". Book by Claire Wolfe, 2007.
“What I can say now about paid DLC is that we aren't working on anything at the moment. We've put all our efforts into making the actual game. Creating DLC would involve large additional costs and require the involvement of a lot of people.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.”

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