“Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.”
― The Longest Journey
― The Longest Journey
“Then you'll feel your cheek scratched...
A little kiss, like a crazy spider,
Will run round your neck...
And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head
- And we'll take a long time to find that creature
- Which travels a lot...”
―
A little kiss, like a crazy spider,
Will run round your neck...
And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head
- And we'll take a long time to find that creature
- Which travels a lot...”
―
“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.”
― Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
― Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
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