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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

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Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

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I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination. ↗

— Brad Pitt

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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#direct experience #experience #independent #intellectual #prior

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. ↗

— Max Planck

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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

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It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

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