Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
~ René Daumal
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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
~ René Daumal
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Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
~ George Orwell
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Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing. Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
~ Pablo Picasso
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This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
~ Walter Kirn
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
~ Che Guevara
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They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Once upon a time, food was about where you came from. Now, for many of us, it is about where we want to go — about who we want to be, how we choose to live.
~ John Lanchester
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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
~ Albert Camus
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
~ Milan Kundera
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Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
~ Haruki Murakami
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