"It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged."

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Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.68, Yale University Press

Witold Gombrowicz

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“Egypt is the mind of the Earth. The heart actually is in Mexico, and some say in Columbia. Tahiti/Morea sits in the feminine South Pole of the Christ grid and that is why they did the nuclear experiments there. The area inside the tube torus that moves up through there enters into the very center of the beam of the Earth. That's why I called it the womb - it goes right into the private personal aspect of the Earth. And they exploded the bombs, right down this center.”
“Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.”
“The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.”

Source : Robert B. Laughlin (2008). “A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down”, p.100, Basic Books
“As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.”

Source : "Jim Starlin Kills The New Gods". Comicon.com, August 2007.
“People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.”
“My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it”
“Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.”
“If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.”

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