“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
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“I believe in the forces of the spirit, and I won't leave you.”
François Mitterrand (1916–1996) 21st President of the French Republic
Last televised address to the French people, 31st of december 1994
“What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.”
Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
Albert Hofmann (1906–2008) Swiss chemist
As quoted in "Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders His 'Problem Child'" (7 January 2006)
Context: Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
“You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.”
Mary McCarthy book The Group
Dottie in Ch. 2
The Group (1963)
“Love yourself and never leave anyone the power to convince you otherwise.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Ama te stesso e non lasciare mai a nessuno il potere di convincerti del contrario.
Source: prevale.net