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“Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.”
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“Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.”
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“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
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“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.”
Source : "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1958.
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“Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.”
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“Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.”
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“I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.”
Source : Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.238, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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“It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.”
Source : Donald Judd, Thomas Kellein (2002). “Donald Judd: 1955-1968”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
