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- The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the…
- All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
- Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
- The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a…
- For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to…
- The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let…
- We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
- after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a…
- Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all…
- The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman