"I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth."

-- Vachel Lindsay

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“It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.”
“So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.”

Source : Pliny (the Younger.), Betty Radice (1969). “Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny”, Heinemann ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
“Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.”

Source : Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.39, Shambhala Publications
“I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.”
“A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.”
“I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music.Â Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness.Â But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.”

Source : Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.79, Courier Corporation
“I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway”

Source : " Leonora Carrington once served her guests a hair omelette. My kind of woman" by Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.
“There is a difference between a small community being herded into a park and murdered and all of these communities joining forces to make sure that something like that will not happen again.”

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