"My errors were more fertile than I ever imagined."

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Source : Jan Tschichold, Günter Bose, Erich Brinkmann (1991). “Schriften: 1925-1974 : Ausgabe in zwei Bänden”

Jan Tschichold

“Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.”
“Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.”
“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.”

Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.6, Modern Library
“I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.”
“Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.”
“A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.”
“How much hair product does it take to get those spikes?”
“I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.”

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