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Daniel Defoe
“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
Daniel Defoe

Patti Smith
“Just come back, I was thinking. You've been gone long enough. Just come back. I will stop traveling; I will wash your clothes.”
Patti Smith, M Train

Alain de Botton
“I took my hands from my pockets and ran them along the bricks' gnarled and pitted surface. They seemed light and ready to crumble. I felt the impulse to kiss them, so as to experience more closely a texture that reminded me of blocks of pumice or halva from a Lebanese delicatessen.”
Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

Jaron Lanier
“The imbalanced power relationship is in your face all the time. Don’t you feel humiliated using one of the Facebook brands, like Instagram or WhatsApp? Facebook is the first public company controlled by one person.32 I mean, I don’t personally have anything against Mark Zuckerberg. It isn’t about him. But why would you subordinate a big part of your life to any one stranger?”
Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Hans Christian Andersen
“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
Hans Christian Andersen

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