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  • #1
    Heinrich Heine
    “Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #2
    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #3
    Heinrich Heine
    “In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #4
    Heinrich Heine
    “There are more fools in the world than there are people.”
    Heinrich Heine
    tags: fools

  • #5
    Heinrich Heine
    “Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #6
    Heinrich Heine
    “Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth
    The best of all were never to be born.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #7
    Heinrich Heine
    “Experience is a good school. But the fees are high”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #8
    Heinrich Heine
    “Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #9
    Heinrich Heine
    “I live, which is the main point.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #10
    Heinrich Heine
    “I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #11
    Heinrich Heine
    “God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #12
    Heinrich Heine
    “I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #13
    Heinrich Heine
    “He only profits from praise who values criticism.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #14
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #15
    William Faulkner
    “Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had time yet. So I must speak only of the ones I do know. I am thinking now of what I rate the best one, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, perhaps because this one expresses so completely what I have tried to say. A youth, father to what will鈥攎ust鈥攕omeday be a man, more intelligent than some and more sensitive than most, who鈥攈e would not even have called it by instinct because he did not know he possessed it because God perhaps had put it there, loved man and wished to be a part of mankind, humanity, who tried to join the human race and failed. To me, his tragedy was not that he was, as he perhaps thought, not tough enough or brave enough or deserving enough to be accepted into humanity. His tragedy was that when he attempted to enter the human race, there was no human race there. There was nothing for him to do save buzz, frantic and inviolate, inside the glass wall of his tumbler, until he either gave up or was himself, by himself, by his own frantic buzzing, destroyed.”
    William Faulkner

  • #16
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #17
    William Faulkner
    “The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.”
    William Faulkner

  • #18
    William Faulkner
    “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
    William Faulkner

  • #19
    Lao Tzu
    “Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don鈥檛 mind, it doesn鈥檛 matter.”
    Mark Twain
    tags: age

  • #21
    Stephen McCranie
    “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
    Stephen McCranie

  • #22
    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art

  • #23
    Thomas Merton
    “The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.”
    Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

  • #24
    H.G. Wells
    “The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.”
    H.G. Wells
    tags: chess

  • #25
    Epictetus
    “Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses. Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes. Your life is too short and you have important things to do. Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity. But there's no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap.”
    Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

  • #26
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
    Tchaikovsky

  • #27
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    “鈥ou see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living”
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  • #28
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    “To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  • #29
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    “There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the first invitation. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavouring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic. We must be patient, and believe that inspiration will come to those who can master their disinclination.”
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    tags: music

  • #30
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    “I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.”
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    tags: music



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