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“But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.”
― William Butler Yeats

“In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. ”
― Tom Brokaw

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. It is the lighting up of the mist by the sun. Man cannot know in any higher sense than this, any more than he can look serenely and with impunity in the face of the sun: “You will not perceive that, as perceiving a particular thing,” say the Chaldean Oracles.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your own clothes.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.”
― William Blake

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Under the comb
the tangle and the straight path
are the same.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
― Leonard Bernstein

“I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.”
― Leonard Bernstein