"The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form."

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Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

David Finckel

#Art Quotes #Style Quotes #Age Quotes

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.”
“If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.”

Source : Peter Kreeft, Fr. Ronald Tacelli (2016). “Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith”, p.72, Ignatius Press
“If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.”

Source : Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Genius”, p.859, Booklassic
“Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.”
“The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.”
“I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation”
“People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.”
“I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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