"For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago."

-- Stefan Zweig

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“I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.”

Source : "Living without 'isms'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.
“One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.”
“Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it-and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting.”
“In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.”
“Dear Complete and Utter Stranger, The first thing that I have to say is that I hate oatmeal. I really hate it. And you know what? If you like oatmeal at all? I mean even the tiniest bit? I mean, say you were lost in the Himalayas, right, and you hadn't eaten anything except a Mars Bar for about seven years, right, and you're really cold and your fingers are all dropping off, right, and you look behind this rock, and there's this bowl of oatmeal? Say you would even think about eating the oatmeal? Well, JUST DON'T BOTHER WRITING TO ME, OKAY?”
“Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.”
“People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“The truth doesn't only excist of what you see.”

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