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"Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes."
~ Frederic Chopin
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"There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential."
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“We are, after all, talking only about macromolecules that provide codes for proteins... After all, a man can be selfish, a rabbit might be selfish in some remotely analogous sense, but a gene can no more be selfish than can a teacup...”
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They all look so cute and innocent ... but it turns out that one is a becoming "pharaoh", the other a pyromaniac and the third a dream thief ... God!
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“As a brilliant physicist... likes to insist, “chaos” could not produce laws unless it were already governed by laws.”
~ David Bentley Hart
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"If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident"
~ Baron de Montesquieu
“It is often windy here, the great sails of wind that build up over the ocean meet no obstacles and come rushing in over the land, but today it was perfectly still, the light stood motionless in the air, and all the muted colours unfolded calmly in it.”
― Karl Ove Knausgaard
Cicero was proscribed as an enemy of the state by the Second Triumvirate and consequently executed by soldiers operating on their behalf in 43 BC. His severed hands and head were then, as a final revenge of Mark Antony, displayed on the Rostra.