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In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things th

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. – Andre Breton

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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. – Andre Breton

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Science
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Andre Breton
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. – Andre Breton

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Escape, Escapism
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew. – Marcus Aurelius

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Humanity

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. – Francis Bacon

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Humanity

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man–yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. – Marcus Antonius

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Humanity

Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood. – Luigi Barzini

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Humanity

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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. – Earl of Chesterfield

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