The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
~ Albert Camus
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Culture, when it loses its sacred sense, loses all sense. With the disappearance of the sacred, which imposed limits to the perfection which could be attained by the profane, arises one of the most dangerous illusions of our civilization
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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I suggest that we reimagine #FOMO as #NOMO, the necessity of missing out.
~ Jenny Odell
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Writers all devise ways to approach that place where they expect to make the contact, where they become the conduit, or where they engage in this mysterious process.
~ Toni Morrison
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We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.
~ Will Rogers
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
~ Jonathan Swift
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.
~ Toni Morrison
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