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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
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Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
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Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
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Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result,…
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Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head
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One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs…
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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation…
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The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is…
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Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress…
— Emily Bronte
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Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know.…
— Unknown Author
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We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason;…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
— James Drummond Burns
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But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft…
— Robert Burns
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Nought venture nought have.
— John Heywood
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