“You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“The trouble is that everybody, myself included, has a brain in which the centers concerned with reason and logic are sitting on top of the socalled limbic system which we inherited from our reptilian ancestors and which never evolved past crude instincts and emotions. And that is why we have not yet arrived at the sate of homo sapiens.”
― Ultra-Solutions: How to Fail Most Successfully
― Ultra-Solutions: How to Fail Most Successfully
“Character is destiny”
― Fragments
― Fragments
“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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