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"A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people."
"I don't understand love quite honestly. I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out."
"I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn."
"Sometimes I think, I need to think before I speak. And then other times I think, I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever."
"I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive."
"When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set."
"The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory."
"There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow."
"I don't think in terms of intervals; I think in terms of tonal color. I'm trying to play through as many keys as possible."
"True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy."
"He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon."
"Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me."
"If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking."
"Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them."
"I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom."
"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."
"I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well."
"I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect."
"People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be."
"To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything."
