"Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any."

-- Igor Stravinsky

#Greatness Quotes #Masterpiece Quotes

“Some believe that those aeroplanes on September 11 came out of a clear blue sky. I believe they came out of a swamp of hatred created by us.”
“I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.”
“Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.”
“Physically it's exhausting to cook every night. Existentially speaking, I have so much more energy having that time to myself in this project, this gift to myself at the end of the day. Even if it didn't go smoothly, it was still a gift.”
“The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.”
“No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.”

Source : Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.”
“Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life.”

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