The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.(from The structure of desire and recognition)

When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.

Most of the people are nice to live with, but not to do business with!

Even Jesus, three days, died. Who is strong doesn't make the strong. (Même Jésus, trois jours, est mort. Qui est fort ne fait le fort)

IMAGES : THEY EITHER GUIDE/MISGUIDE YOU . IT IS THE ORIENTATION / ALIGNMENT OF MIND THAT NEEDS TO BE TUNED TO FRAME THE TRUE IMAGES.

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Don’t worry. I won’t send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It’s the safest mode around me. (Savitar)

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.