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                                        I am anexcitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
                                        - Anais Nin

                                        To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
                                        - William Blake

                                        The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.
                                        - Jack Kerouac

                                        Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
                                        - Simone de Beauvoir

                                        The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, Like The character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good And evil, the true and the false, the creative adn destructibe forces - both individual and social.
                                        - Paul Tillich

                                        One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night.
                                        - Margaret Mead Anthropologist

                                        Punctuality is a virtue of the bored. 
                                        - Evelyn Wough


                                        Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.
                                        - Christian Morganstern

                                        The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to merely comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
                                        - Albert Einstein

                                        There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
                                        - John Locke

                                        What is history but a fable agreed upon.
                                        - Napoleon Bonaparte

                                        This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.
                                        - Walt Whitman

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