"The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop."

-- Stephen Spender

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“Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.”
“We are going to wreak havoc on our opponents' psyche and their plan of attack,”
“One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.”
“A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora”
“Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.”
“Going to the electric chair will be the supreme thrill of my life.”
“As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.”

Source : Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.479, A&C Black

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