"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

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"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Emotion, Nothing

"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

Stephen King, American Author

Thought, Time, Paradox, Humor, Curiosity

"Knowledge is life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Thought, Thoughts, Words

"Knowledge is truth."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The thoughts that arise because of 'depression' or 'elevation' are all wrong thoughts. The thoughts that arise in 'normality' are 'correct'."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"I live and love in God's peculiar light."

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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."

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"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."

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"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived."

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"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

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"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

"Knowledge is truth."

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"I live and love in God's peculiar light."

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"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."

"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived."

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

"Genius is eternal patience."

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"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."

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"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."