The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
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Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one. -
Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in. -
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. -
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. -
The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
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- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
- It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.