"A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that heâ€™s worth something. And if I know for sure that Iâ€™m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?"

-- Andrei Tarkovsky

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“You are an independent mind in this universe that can do everything and anything you have ever dreamed of.”
“Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.”
“Endings are beginnings-if we allow them to be.”

Source : Laura Day (2006). “Welcome to Your Crisis: How to Use the Power of Crisis to Create the Life You Want”, p.25, Hachette UK
“you couldn't talk yourself into love any more than you could talk yourelf out of it.”
“We do live in an unsafe world. That's the truth. I'm dealing with that now, with my seven-year-old. He's grappling with the fact that the world is unsafe, and that there are people who do harmful things. I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can't lie to our children and pretend that the world is perfect, and everybody's happy, and everybody's out there to do good. It's just part of a bigger conversation.”
“Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.”
“It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.”
“One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.”

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