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“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
― Hugh Laurie

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“Les livres sont indispensables. La littérature est l'oxygène de l'âme.”
― Michel Tournier

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.”
― Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

“Întotdeauna e loc pentru mai rău şi tocmai de aceea nu trebuie să ne pierdem nădejdea.”
― Radu Aldulescu, Rezidenți în Casa Visurilor

“Lucrurile care nu se mişcă multă vreme din loc par să se străduiască să ţină timpul în loc.
Moartea nu vine când vrea omul, deşi are tot dreptul şi toată libertatea să şi-o cheme.”
― Radu Aldulescu, Rezidenți în Casa Visurilor

“Bătrâneţea e o boală specială cumva, care trebuie lăsată să se vindece de la sine.”
― Radu Aldulescu, Rezidenți în Casa Visurilor

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair