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> [It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrei-tarkovsky/it-is-a-mistake-to-talk-about-the-artist-looking-for-his-subject-in/)

[Andrei Tarkovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrei-tarkovsky/)

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> [It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/it-is-certain-that-those-who-have-the-living-faith-in-their-hearts/)

[Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/)

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> [We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-hyers/we-live-in-an-ironic-society-where-even-play-is-turned-into-work-but/)

[Conrad Hyers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-hyers/)

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> [“In the independent existence that work gives the thing, working consciousness finds itself again as an independent consciousness. Work is restrained desire.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/in-the-independent-existence-that-work-gives-the-thing-working/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

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> [One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/one-must-give-value-to-their-existence-by-behaving-as-if-ones-very/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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