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“This music ebbs and flows, irregular, sad. It reminds me, weirdly, of watching the ocean during a bad storm, the lashing, crashing waves and the spray of sea foam against the docks; the way it take...”
“He hid in the crowd, she hid in herself.”
“And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, when need must be, the silence of ourselves, that...”
“And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.”
“The fact that everyone is doing something does not mean thats the right things.”
“i often sit and wonderi often sit and dreami often sit and waitfor the one thats just for me i search the many facesin the crowds of people i see exploring, seeking,looking for, the one that it cou...”
“Its a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another persons life. More than that, its a cruel fact of life that we are hardwired to follow the crow...”
“Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.”
“Under friends I just understand people which share the same ideas and thoughts which will mean.... Ops my mistake... I was just looking are you following or you like because of the crowd?”
“Loneliness kills. It becomes more conspicuous in the crowd.”
“One thinking man in a crowd worth a thousand men!”
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception;-- exclu...”
“Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot reach in the crowds will meet you there!”
“Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. Its scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.”
“To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.”
“Life is too short to be sharing its precious moments with the crowd.”
“There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running unless it is a woman.”
“How do I think different from the Crowd??I just watch different stuff, different from the crowd this put's me in problems which are different than the crowd Problems!”
“No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance see...”
“The Genius Of The Crowdthere is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the averagehuman being to supply any given army on any given dayand the best at murder are those who preach against it...”
