Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

Europeans are quarrelsome.

Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

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