"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."
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"Hidden [10w] God hides enough happiness in sadness to light the world."
"....but talking to a ghost about a demon when you’re in a room full of people who can’t see either of them is not to be recommended."
"I’ll give you 50% off for half a year, or 100% off for a whole year. At these bargain discount prices, my love won’t last forever."
"A mighty flame follows a tiny spark."
"If I Were God [10w] If I were God I'd sell my shit on Ebay."
"I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller."
"To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence."
"Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence."
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
"I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!"
"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."
"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die."
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