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“Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?”

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Jim Morrison was an American rock singer and poet, one of the representatives of rock music in the 1960s. His music style was unique, with poetic lyrics, which had a profound impact on the world. more

“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”

Ifs Men Littles Would Be Force Study Psychology Capable Standards Machines Mechanic Maintaining External Forces

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.”

Firsts Animal Practice

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”

Speak Language Ability Courage Communication Novelists Essayists Conceiving Satanic Verses

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.”

Two My Own Fine Hundred Stronger Species Lions Rats Monarchy Monarchs

Author:Voltaire

“But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.”

Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms

“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”

Evil Race Produce Civilization Hopeless Remedy

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.”

Ifs May Sometimes Use Age Humanity Quality Generations Educated Phrases Hospitality Skeptical New Generation

Author:James Joyce

“But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)”

Feelings Hands Felt Absurdity

Book:Watt

Source: Watt

“The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?”

Men World Kind Spiritual Causes Differences Tree Degrees Anger Species Envy Discrimination

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.”

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Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

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