"And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you."

-- Don McLean

#Beautiful Quotes #Suicidal Quotes #Night Quotes

“Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in that part of the brain is designed by evolution to get us to persist despite negative consequences to do what we need to do - because I don't know anybody who could survive a relationship or parenting if not for the ability to persist despite negative consequences. The problem is when that gets misdirected to a drug and then you can find yourself in some very negative and potentially deadly situations.”
“Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.”
“Our heirs, whatever or whoever they may be, will explore space and time to degrees we cannot currently fathom. They will create new melodies in the music of time. There are infinite harmonies to be explored.”

Source : Clifford A. Pickover (1999). “Time: A Traveler's Guide”, p.245, Oxford University Press
“The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.”
“I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'.”
“For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”

Source : Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93
“I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.”
“All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”

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