"We are all kitsch on our deathbeds."

-- Odd Nerdrum

#Kitsch Quotes #Deathbed Quotes

“I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.”
“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body.”
“People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves”

Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.158, Simon and Schuster
“the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.”
“Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!”
“If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.”
“In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.”
“Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.”

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