Serge Gainsbourg Quotes
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
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A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.
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Value everyone you know they might be gone tomorrow
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Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
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It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.
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It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.
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The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.
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Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.
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Never give your sweetie all your heart, what heart will you have left in the end, and what would you do?
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He didn't look too good so we chose to err on the side of caution.
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It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
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Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear.
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Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.
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i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."
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Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.
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Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.
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I am incapable of mediocrity.
