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“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”
― Emil Cioran

“Is it not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“To lead people, walk beside them ...
As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise.
The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ...
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
We did it ourselves!”
― Lao Tzu

“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”
― John Cage

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.”
― Baudelaire, Charles

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.”
― Brian Swimme