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Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#comedy #out #painful #quite #serious

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#also #beautiful #between #biggest #codes

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#i think #once #philadelphia #spent #sunday

The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#actually #by the time #earning #father #going

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#doing #fun #having #having fun #home

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#being yourself #chaos #learned #rejecting #you

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#destroyed #gods #only

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#bother #kill #killing #late #since

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#crime #fear #full #glory #inspires

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#evil #himself #man #must #order