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“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”
― Eleven Minutes
― Eleven Minutes
“Collective madness is called sanity ..”
― Veronika Decides to Die
― Veronika Decides to Die
“Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily”
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“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.”
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
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