Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
I have seen a thousand graves opened and always perceived that whatever was gone the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
Lord Byron
No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way definitely.
Steve Martin
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
Lord Byron
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Emile M. Cioran
Old age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We're two people with separate busy lives and we've defied the odds
Lance Armstrong
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake
