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Related Topic(s): Darkness; Decay; Decline; Despair; Disease; Dying; Emergency; Existential; Prison; Rain; Storms; Suffering

A Hard Rain's A'Gonna Fall
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Dyl

Related Topic(s): Excess; IMAGE; Publicity

There are two degrees of light; it can illuminate-- and it can dazzle. The first is enough!

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Joseph Joubert

Related Topic(s): Excess

I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing.
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Aldous Huxley

Related Topic(s): Excess; Friendship; Love

I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing.
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Aldous Huxley

Related Topic(s): Enough; Excess; Extinguish; Pleasure; Tolerance; Too Much

How much pleasure can you tolerate before you can't take it anymore?

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Rob Kall

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Related Topic(s): Bravery; Life; Madness; Wisdom

The madness of the brave is the wisdom of life.
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Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky was born in Russia, and became a Russian/Soviet author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country. (From Wikipedia)

Related Topic(s): Friend; Love; Madness; Stranger; Wisdom

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

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Rumi

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