Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
Gerald BrenanOne road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.
Gerald BrenanMarriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
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