Mike

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Mike’s Quotes

“Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

tags: distrust, strength-of-mind

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“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books

tags: imitation

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“The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles

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“…the association of two, or more, apparently alien elements on a plane alien to both is the most potent ignition of poetry.”
― Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and the Complete Works

tags: poetry

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“Those eyes, seemingly without mystery, are like certain closed cities, such as Lyons and Zurich, and they hypnotize me as do empty theaters, deserted prisons, machinery at rest, deserts, for deserts are closed and do not communicate with the infinite.”
― Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers

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