"WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert."

-- Edmond Jabes

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“The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.”
“We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.”
“A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.”

Source : Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.87, Lulu.com
“The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.”
“I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.”

Source : B. J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.16, Vintage
“There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.”
“I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.”
“Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.”

Source : Max Heindel (1920). “The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Mystic Christianity ; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development”, p.23, Lulu.com

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