A Momentary Lapse of Reason

“ Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

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Dostoevsky (via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)

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“ ,“And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage. […] Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

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Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo (July 1880)

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“ The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before.

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Albert Einstein

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“ I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

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Oscar Wilde (via girlinlondon)

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“ ‘I prefer,’ wrote Van Gogh, ‘to paint men’s eyes than to paint cathedrals, because there is something in men’s eyes which is not in cathedrals, however majestic and imposing the latter may be…’

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