"Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes."

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Work Quotes #Men Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.49, Canongate Books
“What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.”
“The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.”
“All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.”
“Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day they are assigned to view the world with a critical eye and a detached sense of intimacy.”
“You see, dream-lover of a lady, what shakes me to the core Is the thought as you caress me, you've done this all before I think about the future with me out and others in Will I, too, have disappeared like I've never ever been?”
“Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.”
“I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z.”

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