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" Quand on a le cœur percé d'une lame acérée, on ne s'effondre pas aussitôt"

"My cocoon tightens, colors tease,
I’m feeling for the air;
A dim capacity for wings
Degrades the dress I wear.
 
A power of butterfly must be
The aptitude to fly,
Meadows of majesty concedes
And easy sweeps of sky.
 
So I must baffle at the hint
And cipher at the sign,
And make much blunder, if at last
I take the clew divine

"Digitalis intoxication may have been responsible for Vincent van Gogh’s ‘yellow period’, as well as for paintings such as Starry Night, which some see as exhibiting the ‘halo’ effect around the stars in the sky. Van Gogh may have been treated with digitalis to control the epileptic fits he suffered towards the end of his life.

Many plants contain cyanide compounds, but some are more dangerous than others. It depends on the type and amount of cyanide compound present. The seeds or pits of plants of the genus Prunus all contain cyanide; the stones or pips of peaches, cherries, apples and bitter almonds can be particularly dangerous and potentially lethal in large quantities.

"Proud of my broken heart since thou didst
break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
Proud of my night since thou with moons dost
slake it,
Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

The poison of kings and the king of poisons:

First, arsenic had no taste that could alert the potential victim to their being poisoned. And second, the symptoms of arsenic poisoning are very similar to those of food poisoning, cholera and dysentery, all of which have been common at various times through the ages.

THE pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.

"...atomic spectra were susceptible to external influences, some of which couldn’t be fully accounted for by Bohr’s model. Put an atom in a magnetic field, and its spectrum changed. Put it in an electric field, and its spectrum changed in a different way. Colors shifted, blurred, and split, dimmed and brightened, with no larger pattern in sight—until Heisenberg."

How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And doesn’t care about careers,
And exigencies never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.

drug effects are not determined solely by pharmacology (the drug binding to the receptor in the brain).It is biology and the environment that determine our drug experiences. This is why knowing only how much dopamine or serotonin was released in response to a drug, for example, when trying to characterize a drug’s effect on human behavior or mood, is essentially useless. One must also take into account the environmet

"...drug effects are not determined solely by pharmacology. It is biology and the environment that determine our drug experiences. This is why knowing only how much dopamine or serotonin was released in response to a drug, for example, when trying to characterize a drug’s effect on human behavior or mood, is essentially useless. One must also take into account the environment."

YOU cannot put a fire out;
A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
Upon the slowest night.
 
You cannot fold a flood
And put it in a drawer,—
Because the winds would find it out,
And tell your cedar floor.

There’s grief of want, and grief of cold,—
A sort they call “despair”;
There’s banishment from native eyes,
In sight of native air.

I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me,—as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
 
To races nurtured in the dark;—
How would your own begin?
Can blaze be done in cochineal,
Or noon in mazarin?

Long ago, in the distant past, people had looked at portraits with awe, because they had thought that in preserving the likeness the artist could somehow preserve the soul of the person he portrayed. Now the great scientist, Leonardo, had made some of the dreams and fears of these first image-makers come true. He knew the spell which would infuse fife into the colours spread by his magic brush. 

...the very reason why nearly all the famous statues of the ancient world perished was that after the victory of Christianity it was considered a pious duty to smash any statue of the heathen Gods. The sculptures in our museums are, for the most part, only secondhand copies made in Roman times for travellers as souvenirs, and as decorations for gardens or public baths.

..c’est plus facile d’être malheureux qu’heureux, et moi, tu m’entends, je n’aime pas les gens qui choisissent la facilité, je n’aime pas les geignards. Sois heureux, merde ! Fais ce qu’il faut pour être heureux ! »

"..for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us—through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations."

"Michael was mint chocolate chip for her. She could try other flavors, but he’d always be her favorite.
Her differences always did this. They left her most alone when she was surrounded by people. Usually, she didn’t care. She didn’t need people. She was happiest when she had the space and time to focus on things that interested her. But Michael interested her, and she didn’t feel alone when she was with him."

"The data indicate that, on average, every star you see has some kind of planet orbiting around it. About 20 percent of the stars, like our sun, have Earth-like planets—that is, are similar to the Earth in size and are in the habitable zone. Since there are roughly one hundred billion stars in the Milky Way, about twenty billion Earth-like planets may exist in our backyard."

"Mais plus les jours défilaient et plus elle songeait que, de toutes les épreuves possibles et imaginables, l'attente était la plus cruelle."