"We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them."

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“It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.”

“A clean conscience might help you to get into heaven. but it won't help your career.”

“Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.”

“Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.”

“Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams.”

“Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.”

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"They see a race of law-makers legislating without knowing what their laws are about; today voting a law on the sanitation of towns, without the faintest notion of hygiene, tomorrow making regulations …"

— Peter Kropotkin

Philosophy1842–1921

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"Lazy geniuses! There are no such men. Laziness and genius never go hand in hand. Each excludes the other. Laziness is the best proof of the absence of genius."

— Epifanio de los Santos

Journalism1871–1928

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"Put the picture away or, preferably, send it back to me, dear Valentin. If people cannot understand it is based on their inner engagement with these matters, then there is no point in showing the thin…"

— Max Beckmann

Art1884–1950

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"f we're able to understand just the rudiments of this communication, we may be able to save them. ...70% of the population is gone, and it's declining very quickly."

— James Nestor (writer)

Literature

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