#familia

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

Familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Aesop

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

#everyone #fall #falling #falling in love #familiar

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#anyone #college #comfortable #daunting #environment

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#concepts #concerned #familiar #long #mean

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#being #combines #die #i #ill

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#doing #familiar #familiar things #get #i

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#hundreds #lot #melody #songs #sound

It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also. ↗