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“In the age of instant information man ends his job of fragmented specializing and assumes the role of information-gathering. Today information-gathering resumes the inclusive concept of ‘culture’ exactly as the primitive food-gatherer worked in complete equilibrium with his entire environment. Our quarry now, in this new nomadic and ‘workless’ world, is knowledge and insight into the creative processes of life and society.” –Marshall McLuhan

"We are not lonely because we lack connection. We are lonely because we lack presence."---Anonymous

"I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, but it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone." - Robin Williams

Mariska Veres: "I was just a painted doll back in those days, nobody could ever reach me. Nowadays, I am more open to people."

Venus (1969) ... https://youtu.be/8LhkyyCvUHk?list=RDILq01taR4CU

“The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark.”—James Salter

“The task of critical reflection is not merely to understand the various facts in their historical development... but also to see through the notion of fact itself, in its development and therefore in its relativity.”–Max Horkheimer

“While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.”-- Virginia Woolf