"Apathy is a sort of living oblivion."

-- Horace Greeley

#Empathy Quotes #Apathy Quotes #Oblivion Quotes

“Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.22
“I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.”
“I hope my allergies don't act up”
“More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness”
“It makes every Haitian proud to have such a hospital,”

Source : "Haitian Prime Minister Meets with PIH, Harvard". www.pih.org. June 5, 2014.
“I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This is my protest against the sensory deprivation that we experience, which is due to this tendency towards globalization, towards homogenization, towards the generic - a technological standard rather than an aesthetic standard. I'm mining history, trying to regenerate a pictorial situation that is more humanistic. It's not about commodification, it's not about fitting into some sort of corporate structure. It's opposed to that direction.”
“The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.”
“Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.”

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