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Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.


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Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.



The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.




People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.



Find what you love and let it kill you.

Find what you love and let it kill you.



If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.



Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.



Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.



You have to die a few times before you can really live.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.



I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.





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Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.



My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.



Success is focusing on your A-list. Success is thinking profits. Success is doing only what works. Success is easier when you tread the path that leads to success

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I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.



If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be



He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.

He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.



Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.



Love is hope when reason despairs.

Love is hope when reason despairs.



My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

My life is a vast inconsequential epic.



In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.

In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.




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