Posted by: DaVe RaNdOm
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
We all have a world of things within us: everyone their own! And how can we understand each other, sir, if in the words I say I put the meaning and the value of the things within me; whilst he who listens, inevitably, understands them with the meaning and the value that they have for each other, of the world like he has it within him? We think we understand each other, we never understand each other!
You'll always have to face critisism!
They'll talk badly about you!
It'll be hard for you to meet someone
to whom you'll do fine as you are!
So live, do what your heart tells you to!
Compare life to a theatre play
without an initial rehearsal!
Dance, sing, laugh, living intensely
every day, every moment of your life,
before the show's over without any clapping!
Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
Everyone says the brain is the most complex organ of the human body, as a doctor I agree. But as a woman I assure you that there's nothing of more complex than the heart, even today we aren't certain of its mechanisms. In the brain's reasoning there's a logic, in the heart's reasoning there's feelings.
They think I'm mad because I'm not willing to sell my days for gold... and I think them crazy because they think my days may have a price.
The artifice of the happy endings in stories always annoyed my Nini; she is convinced that in life there are no endings, but boundaries, wandering here and there, tripping over, getting lost.