"It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land."

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“The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!”

“Erasers remind us there is no faultless human.”

“We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!”

“Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.”

“Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!”

“Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!”

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"Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible."

— Douglas Coupland

Literature1961

#Human Nature

"The English are particularised for their partiality to strange sights; uncommon beasts, birds, or fishes, are sure to attract their notice, and especially such of them as are of the monstrous kind; an…"

— Joseph Strutt

Art1749–1802

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"resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And…"

— Yanis Varoufakis

Economics1961

#nature