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Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#behind #every #failure #had #missed

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#human #invented #loneliness #music

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#absolute #appalling #capable #charity #degree

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#born #circumstances #contribute #determined #differing

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#coexistence #created #critical #critically #entity

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#coincidence #possible #programmed #turn #worst

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#demands #freedom #issuing #mind #only

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#expediency #go #hand #political #religion

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#capability #cuisine #fully #good #good things

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#birth #birth control #control #hunger #only