"High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone."

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Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “The Intellectual Life: With a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, etched by Leopold Flameng”, p.328

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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“In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.”
“If you lend someone 20 dollars and never see that person again, it's probably worth it.”
“Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.”
“A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.”
“No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.”
“A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.”

Source : Chŏng-il Kim, Jong Il Kim (1989). “The Present Times and the Tasks Facing Young People: Talk to the Senior Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, October 12, 1988”
“I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.”

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