If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
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Charles Darwin
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." (first published 1937)]
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Albert Einstein
Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.
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Lady Gaga
The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves...
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John Stuart Mill
Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life, and at that moment "seen" that everything which is good, is loved and lovable, loved by God! Such certainties all mean, at bottom,...
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Josef Pieper
More Quotes By J.G. Ballard
In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.
Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with...
First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal...
