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Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers.

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There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

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I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

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Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?

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I have thought too much to stoop to action!

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Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

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I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Born: November 7, 1838
Died: August 19, 1889 (aged 50)
Bio: Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was a French symbolist writer.
Known for:
  1. The Future Eve (1886)
  2. Contes cruels (1883)
  3. The Vampire Soul and Other Sardonic Tales
  4. The Scaffold and Other Cruel Tales

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