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petak, 02.04.2010.
Art is science made clear.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
My head rang like a gong.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
