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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
Ray Kurzweil The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
"Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we?d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it."
Book I George Eliot Middlemarch
"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
Dame Edna Everage In a television interview with Joan Rivers
"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."
about idea
"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."
"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."
about patient
"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
in Michael Holroyd Lytton Lytton Strachey
about Discretion
"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
about integrity
"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
about character
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."