October 2011
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly...
– Edgar Allan Poe
The movie industry is a business for entertainment. And who controls this...
– Alejandro Jodorowsky
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There’s a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your...
– David Lynch
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The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other...
– Lisa Genova, Still Alice
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Nevertheless, and although he himself did not seem to notice it, those letters...
– Gabriel García Márquez
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I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life...
– Albert Einstein
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Both destiny’s kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual...
– David Foster Wallace
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Source of Aesthete →
theageofdiscrimination:
‘Brain/Cloud’, John Baldessari
“Brain areas such as the anterior insula and orbitofrontal cortex that are activated by pleasant smells or tastes are also the parts of the brain that are active when we are awed by Renaissance paintings or Baroque concertos. There is virtually no evidence…
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Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral...
– Hal Incandenza (David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest)
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All the world’s great suffering comes from the fact that kings do not know how...
– Blaise Pascal
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the...
– Fascinating Physicist Gabriel Lippmann, who also happens to have an awesome mustache
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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
– Jean Cocteau