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No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development. Karenin surrounded Tereza and Tomas with a life based on repetition, and he expected the same from them.
Milan Kundera • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Although generally considered by his contemporaries to be friendly and gentle, Leonardo was at times dark and troubled. His notebooks and drawings are a window into his fevered, imaginative, manic, and sometimes elated mind. Had he been a student at the outset of the twenty-first century, he may have been put on a pharmaceutical regimen to alleviat
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Leonardo da Vinci
What struck me particularly about him was the mixture of a sort of innate natural ferocity with a similarly innate nobility—a mixture such as I have never come across in any other person.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Malcolm Gladwell • Talking to Strangers
Insanity is not a “regrettable . . . accident” but the “indispensable catalyst” of genius.
Nassir Ghaemi • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
En 1995, à l’âge de vingt-six ans, il a créé un magazine alternatif, The Idler (Le Fainéant), qui célébrait l’éthos de la génération X : partir loin des courses de rats et mener une vie de plaisir, de créativité et d’apathie politique.
Jules Evans • La philo, c'est la vie ! (Poche) (French Edition)
People have different diseases, doctors hold different ideas about those diseases, and diseases carry different meanings in society
No drug is good, no drug is bad, for every drug is both
Poppy seeds- over 10,000 years ago- in today’s Syria
Opium was appealing because it always pitched the body while romancing the imagination... See more
el gobierno de Juan José Arévalo lo expulsó del Ejército y los jueces lo condenaron a muerte, una condena diferida varias veces. Su fuga, el 11 de junio de 1951, de la Penitenciaría, lo hizo célebre en todo el país. Había dos versiones sobre ella.
Mario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)
Lorsqu’on considère le magazine dans les années 1960, on note son côté radical et avant-gardiste. Hefner a publié Ray Bradbury, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Kenneth Tynan et Philip Roth. Il a lancé Lenny Bruce et Woody Allen, il a publié des interviews de Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Bob Dylan, Fidel Castro. Il cél
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