"All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just."

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Source : Boethius (1897). “The Consolation of Philosophy”

Boethius

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“It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, i thought I was an artist. I no longer think about it. I am. There are no more books to be written, thank God.”
“I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.”

Source : Katarina Witt (2007). “Only with Passion: Figure Skating's Most Winning Champion on Competition and Life”, Public Affairs
“At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.”

Source : Susan Jacoby (2008). “The Age of American Unreason”, p.269, Vintage
“Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.”
“To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.”

Source : Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”
“Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.”
“One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.”

Source : Irving Howe (1994). “A Critic's Notebook”, Harcourt
“As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.”

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