The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

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The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

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Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

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The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

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